The Final Yak

Posted on Jan 6, 2026

After 2 days holiday-time development using AI to build an agent to manage my email (bane, the very bane of my existence) everything is working and I have an inbox-zero robot which I love and the final, insurmountable hurdle once I ‘go live’ (a tmux forever session): Google API resource constraints. An unshaveable yak. What worked yesterday does not work today. I can only wait.

I must wait until a time in the past! UTC of course. That time is 15 minutes from now. 15 minutes is not enough. I must wait again. Creating a new GCP app is not sufficient. The entire account is constrained now.

I read my email instead.