Recently an agent built a working prototype of MERIDIAN in a couple of days. A live page - where I've been, where I am, where next - plus a world map the app draws itself from the EXIF in your photo library, on-device, with zero manual input. Expo, React Native, a black SVG map. What would have taken a week of dense frontend a year ago was ready to screenshot-test the same day.
Here's what that speed did. It didn't remove the risk - it moved it. While code was expensive, the main question was "can we build it." Now building costs almost nothing, and one expensive question is left: am I even building the right thing. The risk moved off "make it" and onto "decide what to make."
So I rebuilt how I run product. Not around who writes the code - there's unlimited code now. Around who decides which code is worth writing at all. I barely write myself - I hand tasks to agents, check, and cut. Below is how it's wired. Not "look at my system," but something you can copy.
What the agents do, and what I hand to no one
The work is split into pieces. Each piece has an agent that carries the volume, and a piece I keep. The line between them is the whole job.
