The Tribe Has to Outlive the Model · Five model swaps in three weeks taught me the project's continuity lives in the humans and conventions around the agents, not the agents themselves.

By the fourth model swap I noticed that the part of the system I wasn’t swapping was the part holding the project together. Five configurations in three weeks: Opus 4.6, Opus 4.6 with the 1M context window, Cursor Cloud Agents on GPT Codex 5.3, Cloud Agents on Composer 2, and this week Opus 4.7. Some swaps were involuntary. Credits ran out. A model that had been my daily driver for two months…