My LinkedIn profile still says "tech junkie that thrives under pressure." Underneath that line is a long attempt to unload responsibility correctly: scripts, abandoned interfaces, GitOps, an internal testbed, and finally a platform I could teach to the development team.
The useful signal was not which agent looked best on visible tests. It was which one kept Archibus's boring rules intact after the hidden checks showed up.
A Real Archibus Dev Environment Is Not Just a Container
The container is the easy part. Real Archibus workspaces also need databases, licenses, restore paths, startup scripts, IDE access, diagnostics, and support evidence.
ISM is not a generic software shop. Most of the work lives in the hard middle around Archibus, operations, data, support, and tools that make the work repeatable.
The first useful ArchiBot knowledge-system lesson was not a vector database. It was learning how to make private software knowledge retrievable at all.