Introducing Crypts and Commits
The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part One There is a lot of conversation right now about one developer coordinating forty coding agents. I am not going to pretend I know whether that is good or bad. It is clearly a real model of working, and there are people doing remarkable things with it. But I keep coming back to a more ordinary question: what does agentic development look like for a team of…
The article discusses the potential of coding agents in team development, focusing on the challenges faced by smaller teams of ten developers. It highlights the issue of the "hero coder," where one person becomes a bottleneck due to their deep understanding of the system. The author argues that this model may not be suitable for all organizations and prefers a more balanced approach using coding agents.
The article introduces Crypts and Commits, a project designed to help teams of ten developers work effectively with coding agents. Inspired by Beads and the concept of documentation as AI-friendly records, the project aims to create a durable context for both developers and agents. It relies on simpler terminology inspired by tabletop gaming to facilitate communication with AI coding assistants.
Unlike Gas Town and Gas City, which focus on orchestrating agents in a larger system, Crypts and Commits emphasizes a human-AI partnership, where the human describes the work, and the AI creates an encounter to be refined until it meets the desired end state. The project acknowledges that no single harness can be universally applicable and encourages project-specific configuration to create a bespoke harness tailored to each codebase.
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