I Stopped Chatting and Started Filing Issues
Chat is a good scratchpad and a terrible filing cabinet. I moved the actual conversation into Gitea issues, and my projects stopped stalling.
What I Learned Shipping a Multi-Agent System
I planned Ceres with seven specialist agents and cut half of them in the first week. The surviving ones still broke, just not the way I expected. They gave me good answers and then quietly assumed somebody acted on them. What that taught me about restraint, state, and where the real work in a multi-agent system actually lives.
Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out
A week ago I introduced Ceres, the multi-agent garden assistant Kim and I are building for our raised beds. A week later there is, in fact, code — and a careful re-design that ripped out part of it within three days.
Building Ceres, a Multi-Agent Garden Assistant
We are growing a lot of vegetables this year. Carrots, cauliflower, russet potatoes, Roma tomatoes, and more are all going into fourteen raised beds in our garden. We have done our research, but there are a lot of variables in…