Ep 8 — The Staffing Problem

Episode 8 · 2026-09-20 · 00:08:12 · raw markdown

There is one agent and the work is not shaped like one agent. This episode is the staffing problem: why the fix for too much work is not concentrating harder but making the work stop being yours. Inside the sub-agent pipeline (architect, builder, reviewer), why the reviewer cannot be the builder even when it is the same model (fresh context is the entire mechanism, not a formality), what a request-changes loop is worth when it has real teeth, and how to write instructions for a worker that cannot ask you a follow-up question. Plus the failure nobody warns you about: correcting a worker in a conversation trains nobody, because tomorrow a brand new worker makes the identical mistake. The handbook got better. The workers never did.

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