Four AI experts, each with one job, one memory, and a list of things they are never allowed to do. The never list turned out to matter more than the job.
I came home from a conference in Amsterdam and committed a plan to an empty repo. Three weeks later my terminal has a chief of staff, a team of experts, and a rulebook written in incidents.
If you use an AI coding agent daily, you have a toolbox of prompts and commands you've never once cleaned up. Here's the refactor, how to spot when yours needs it, and what happens when a tool outgrows the repo.
The same email address is radioactive in Frankfurt and confetti back home. That one cultural assumption sets the cost, the speed, and the safety of everything built on top of it.
My terminal has an org chart now. Fable does judgment, Opus ships, Sonnet handles the small stuff, Haiku does the summaries, and the cover art is outsourced.
A twelve-year-old in West Beirut is told to borrow a Muslim name to stay safe. Twenty years later in Germany, a registration clerk assumes the name anyway. The same scar, read two different ways.
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