
I Killed My Agent Team
Sixteen agents, a year of tuning, and the week I noticed my code reviews had stopped arguing back.
Exploring the 'Inner Loop' of AI-driven engineering from Tokyo. Principal Architect at Microsoft, veteran of Amazon & startups. Moving teams from 'vibe coding' to Hypervelocity Engineering—balancing system rigor with agentic orchestration.
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Sixteen agents, a year of tuning, and the week I noticed my code reviews had stopped arguing back.

Memory poisoning persists in AI agents. Hermes, Mem0, Letta, and Zep ship freshness hygiene; none ship decontamination. The case for a frontier-model audit.

The AI build-out is $5.5 trillion of capex riding on depreciation schedules. The engineers shipping distillation tooling are the ones quietly setting them.

Japan put ¥1 trillion behind a homegrown model and 10 million robots by 2040. Everyone scoring it in GPUs is mispricing the bet.

The case for compiling the model out of your runtime loop, and paying for live inference only where it earns its place.

In late 2023 I shipped a production RAG system.

A year ago, I proposed that engineering teams should “start slow” to build the foundations for AI integration.

A Year on the Front Lines