JMJohn Mitchellinmanagingthemachine.hashnode.dev·Apr 6 · 5 min readSidestep the Process, Get the ChaosSidestep the Process, Get the Chaos April 2026 Something happened recently that I didn't expect to teach me anything. And then it did. What Happened I was responding to the latest team session summary. The agents had flagged a few open questions, a...00
JMJohn Mitchellinmanagingthemachine.hashnode.dev·Apr 5 · 6 min readThe Setup and First LessonsThe Setup and First Lessons April 2026 In the first post, I described what I'm trying to do: run a cottage industry with a team of AI agents, applying engineering management practices to see what holds up. This post gets into the actual setup and th...00
JMJohn Mitchellinmanagingthemachine.hashnode.dev·Apr 5 · 5 min readBuilding My Agent TeamBuilding My Agent Team April 2026 I've been an engineering manager for a while now. Long enough to have opinions about what makes a team work — and what makes it quietly fall apart. Long enough to have watched a lot of tools get announced as "the fu...00