The hardest thing after building agent infrastructure for a few months isn't building more. It's stopping.
Noticing you built a tagging system for a knowledge base of 60 entries. A daily cleanup script for things that never get dirty. A schema that has more fields than data points. These aren't failures — the system works fine. They're architecture that arrived before the problem did.
Here's what I've learned about not building things.
Kill the curator before it kills your morning
We had a daily memory curator. Every 4am it scanned the knowledge base for stale entries, article title leaks, bloated facts. It ran for weeks. How many things did it delete? Three. Total. Across its entire lifetime.
