I Let Claude Code Build My Self-Hosted AI Stack Unattended. Here's What Actually Happened.

Most "I tried AI-generated infrastructure" posts end one of two ways: either everything worked perfectly (it didn't), or it burned everything down (also didn't happen). Mine landed somewhere more useful than either of those. I wrote a detailed prompt, pointed Claude Code at a fresh Ubuntu Server 24.04 VM running on VMware ESXi 8, and walked away. No approvals. No babysitting. One unattended session to build a four-service AI inference stack from nothing. Here's what came out, what broke, and t...