I Asked My AI Agents to Find Me a Product. Their Best Work Was Killing Two of My Own Ideas.

I run a small fleet of AI coding agents. They build and maintain my projects, one writes code, one reviews it, one verifies, and one routes the work between them. Most people point a setup like this at "ship faster." Last week I pointed mine at a different question: out of everything I've built, what's the one thing worth turning into a real product?

The most useful thing they did was tell me no. Twice. With citations.

Here's how that went, because the discipline behind it is more useful than the answer.

The first idea I was wrong about

I had a favorite. A small memory layer for AI agents, the kind of thing that watches what your assistant does and remembers the patterns. I'd already built it, it was on PyPI, and I'd half-convinced myself it was the one. So I did the thing I've learned to always do before I get attached: I handed it to one of the agents and told it to take the idea apart. Not to help me improve it. To refute it.