I went looking for the reason not to build it
The requirements were done and I hadn't written a line of code. So I spent a day trying to talk myself out of the whole thing.
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Leadership
A Slack channel with nobody in it
I asked nine agent sessions to stop compiling for forty minutes. What came back read like a team of colleagues, and I haven't worked out what to do about that.
Which one needs me next
A dozen agent sessions running at once is not a capacity problem. Working out which of them is stuck is, and the obvious way to find out is the wrong one.
Ready for human
I run a coding session per repository and they can't talk to each other. For a while the thing carrying messages between them was me, and I kept getting it wrong.
What I took back off the shelf
I put my working practice on a public shelf, and then took some of it back off again. Working out which half was the interesting part.
Who owns the pager?
The hard part of on-call is not fixing broken systems at three in the morning. It is an employer borrowing a life it does not pay for.
