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What configuration is necessary for maximum productivity?

Balance rigid, observable machinery with flexible agents that can adapt without requiring a new service for every role.

Starting point

There is an enduring tension between “just let agents do everything” and a rigid structure with agents doing highly focused jobs. I lean toward structure, but structure produces code and operational surface area while agents remain flexible.

What to track

  • Which guarantees are valuable enough to encode in software.
  • Which decisions are safer when left to an agent with context.
  • How much configuration improves repeatability before it becomes friction.

Living record

Major configuration choices and the evidence behind them belong here.