Builder, product engineer, and AI tinkerer.

I'm Mike Averto. I build software products, experiment with AI agents, and write about what I learn along the way.

Self-Hosting a Slack Coding Agent on Your Own Infrastructure

A battle-tested recipe for standing up a coding agent that lives in Slack, runs on your own Docker host, and can read code, open pull requests, and run commands — with every gotcha that cost me an hour left in deliberately.