Building in public.

I'm building a company that runs itself, and the strange part is how much it teaches me about myself. Every time I hand a piece of the work to an agent, it forces me to say out loud what I actually want.. not the vague intention I'd been carrying, but the real rule. Agents don't fill in the gaps with good taste the way a person quietly does; they do exactly what you specified, which means they expose every place your thinking was lazy or implicit. So the job stops being "write the code" and becomes "know what good looks like, precisely enough to delegate it." Most of the work that's left for me is judgment and the handful of decisions that can't be undone. That's a smaller job than I used to have, and a much harder one.

I run a real business with real customers alongside the experimental stuff, and that keeps me honest.. you can't fake your way past someone whose heating is out. What I keep coming back to is that the point of all this isn't to remove people; it's to remove the parts of work that were never worth a human's hours in the first place. One system, designed well, can give a lot of people their afternoons back. I build in public because I'd rather show the version that's still rough than perform one that's finished, and because being watched makes me write things down more clearly than I would alone. I don't have this fully figured out. But an agent-run company isn't science fiction to me anymore.. most days it just looks like a backlog, and the discipline to keep deciding what's worth building.