Building with direction

Most teams building with new intelligence tools have the same problem. Fast resolution with a correct direction. Velocity. There are many kinds of agents now. Generalist, specialist, orchestrators, and a few other shapes that appear every month in a new kind of flavour on how to do something in the best possible way. This reminds me of the long, almost obnoxious conversations of tabs vs spaces, React vs the X framework of the moment, GC and non-GC languages, JIT or not, PHP vs ASP.NET, and you can probably mention a few more. Before you build anything, you have to pick what you are building, and the most important question: why. Most teams never make that choice explicit, since they arrive with a potential cargo cult from both the new and the old company, so they end up building all of them, at once, badly. Cargo cult is harmful. Anyways, going back to nowadays and development, we have at least two kinds of agents, which we can call: A generalist, like Claude, can do a bit of…