How I Organise My AI Coding Agents

My first agent setup had one obvious win and one tension I had to work out how to handle. The win was speed. The agents got through a lot of work, fast. The tension was that a lot of work fast is exactly the thing that’s hard to review well. The changes were coming in quicker than my old habit of reading every diff carefully could keep up with. Speed felt like progress, but the two aren’t the same thing, and I could see where it led if I let review quality drop to match the pace: a codebase that drifts, one reasonable-looking change at a time. ...

May 22, 2026 · 12 min · Luke Jones