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"Whoa, AI prototyped this so fast! This prototype is getting buggy. My AI agent can fix the bugs! Hmm, every bug fix adds more bugs Aha! My agent can review the code Wait, why am I passing data between agents I need an agent framework My agent can write an agent framework! [Return to step 1]"

apenwarr.caEvery layer of review makes you 10x slowerWe’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

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The missing step between 1 and 2: context window fills up and the agent silently forgets every design decision it already made. Each new session rediscovers the same dead ends. Not a loop. A spiral.

this cycle hits every team eventually lol. the agents that escape it are the ones where someone did the boring work upfront - clean task scoping, explicit failure modes, no circular deps. basically, good process before automation not after