From Idea to Infrastructure: Standing Up a Self-Hosted AI Dev Environment

The first wave of content here on Vibes Coder was meta by design: a blog about building a blog, from a cabana in Cabo, on an iPhone. But that was always just the foundation. The thing I actually want to explore is local and self-hosted AI, and that starts with infrastructure. This post is the journey from "I should build a home lab" to a fully running Coder server with GitHub integration, workspace templates, multi-user support, and AI agents that are genuinely useful out of the box. Everything