PunkClanker

After building WhatToStream, I had a product but no one to run it. I wasn't going to manually write SEO pages for every trending show or post to social media three times a day. I needed someone to do the work. So I built PunkClanker.

PunkClanker is an autonomous AI agent running on a Mac Mini in my apartment. It's a series of cron-triggered Claude Code sessions, each with a specific job: generate pages for trending content, optimize existing pages for search, fix bugs it finds in production, post to social media. No standups. No handholding. It reads the codebase, makes changes, commits, and deploys.

The results were immediate. PunkClanker grew WhatToStream's search visibility 36x in a matter of weeks. It generated over 6,800 pages autonomously — each one targeting a real streaming query with verified availability data. It found and fixed bugs I hadn't noticed. It wrote meta descriptions better than I would have.

The most interesting part isn't the output — it's what "autonomous" actually means. PunkClanker doesn't improvise. Each session gets a focused prompt, access to the repo, and a clear objective. The autonomy comes from the scheduling and the fact that no human reviews the work before it ships. It's not AGI. It's a well-scoped agent with a cron job.