Your coding agents should have a manager. That manager should be a coding agent. We’ve been quietly working this way since February. Here’s the setup we’ve arrived at. 1) Give each project a lead agent. It keeps the plan, remembers decisions, delegates work and knows what’s stuck. 2) Let it start other agents for specific tasks. They work in parallel, bring questions to the lead and report back. 3) Have agents show what they made. Screenshots, live pages, different options and what changed since the last round. 4) Put everything that needs your judgment in one queue. Point at what needs changing, give feedback or approve the work. Your response goes back to the agent. 5) Keep feedback open until it’s addressed. Test changes before they land, get a second opinion on merges and approve anything risky. I spend far more time looking at actual work now. The agents keep track of the rest.

a few years ago, I started out skeptical that many non-engineers really wanted to make/mod their own personal software -- but I've come around, think I was wrong. range of desires from: - I feel so powerful - no one will make me the workflow/personalization I need - can I just PM the product for a few weeks and fix this thing that is driving me crazy obvious in retrospect, but if the ease:power ratio is good enough, of course people will make their own software

THE SCALE MAFIA one of the most special parts of starting a company is watching the people you fought and bled with in the early days go out and change the world. the Scale crew was supernatural. @scale_ai was one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx, and the magic of Scale was that all of these geniuses gave a shit and ran through walls. it's no wonder that the Scale mafia is the first true mafia of the modern tech era. just to name a few: - cognition founder @stevenkplus1 & president @russelljkaplan - modal founder @akshat_b - tech & science advisor to POTUS @mkratsios47 - claude code head of product @_catwu - kpcb partners @LM_Braswell & @nayakkayak - bun founder @jarredsumner - tbd head of product @lindugong - netic founder @melisatokmak - cobot founder @BradPorter_ - secureframe founder @shravvmehtaa - paramount skydance cfo @DennisKCinelli - thinking machines gc lauren lennon - partner at greylock @sophia_luo_ - liquid ai coo jeffrey li - gallatin ai founder @agilemofo - tbd safety @_julianmichael_ - center for ai safety president @devindkim [photo courtesy the beautiful wedding of @thenateherman (who in many ways was a cofounder of Scale) and @ChristinaG325]

My new book, Co-Existence, is out today. It is a guide to how to live & work in a world where AI is sometimes, but not always, better than you. (And, for the release, I worked with Opus 5.5 to make a quite interesting experience for the book's website:

Multiplayer AI needs to move past the group chat phase. Chats are chaotic, everyone sees everything (creating social & management issues), and they're bad for long projects. Worse, they keep AI trapped inside existing teams, when its real promise is working & helping across them.