I route to the cheapest capable model, always
From maggy's 13 tiers to srooter's gateway: how the reflex formed, and the one case where it bit me.
Recent thoughts
Weekly-ish notes from building AI infrastructure and running teams that use it. Short, concrete, no hype.
I don't trust one model
Why every PR at zenloop was reviewed by a council of models, and what the Red Team caught that a single reviewer never would.
Build the hard module, then step back
The leadership pattern that kept a 70-person org from becoming a one-person dependency, and how I apply it to a team of ten.
Agentic dev is infrastructure, not a vibe
ADRs, specs, TDD, and visual validation: the process I encode so agents can build safely without me watching.
Productize the primitive
My internal router became srooter. My setup became maggy. A short note on noticing when a tool wants to be a company.
Polyphony: agents in parallel, each in its own sandbox
One branch per agent, one container per agent, and a merge strategy that survived a live migration.