The in-laws' internet.

This is day one of an experiment: one post a day about one real thing I did with AI that day. Sometimes it will be business. Sometimes it will be personal. Sometimes it will be something deeply unserious that I have no professional defense for. The only rule is that it actually happened, and I'll tell you what it cost and whether it worked.

Day one is personal. Here's something that happened this summer, and how I used AI to fix it.

I was working from my in-laws' house, and their internet was rough. Download speeds were sitting around 20 Mbps, which is the kind of slow you feel in your teeth when you're actually trying to get something done. Everyone had just made peace with it. That's how the internet is, right? It's slow, you complain, you move on.

I didn't want to move on. So I took a picture of the router and their whole setup and handed it to Claude. From that one photo, it helped me figure out how to get into the admin area, the settings page most people never open because it looks like an airplane cockpit.

From there we went through the advanced settings together. Every time I hit something I didn't understand, I'd screenshot it and ask, and it would walk me through exactly what that setting did and whether I should touch it. No guessing. No "have you tried turning it off and on again." Just a patient tour through a menu I had no business understanding.

When it was all said and done, download speeds went from 20 Mbps to over 200 Mbps, across the whole house. Same router, same plan, same everything. Just set up the way it should have been all along.

Massive difference. And, importantly, favorite son-in-law status: cemented. (My brother-in-law is going to read this. Hi.)

That sentence is basically my company's whole thesis. Josh and I started GullStack as a web studio, and every client kept pulling us deeper into their business. The register. The schedule. The members. The money. All of it confusing, all of it badly documented, all of it fixable. So now we build the software a business actually runs on, and this week GullStack became Walkthru Labs.

We walk your whole business through. Same two people. Same pixelated seagull. He's the one poking at the router up there. He doesn't know what half those settings do either, and that's fine. You don't have to. You just need something patient enough to figure it out with you.

Day two tomorrow. It might be a client's back office. It might be something with zero business value that made me laugh. No promises on dignity.