I wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and open my website. There’s something new on it — a recipe I didn’t write, a feature I never asked for, shipped overnight by something that isn’t a person.
This episode is about themeasuringcup.com, a recipe site I built by hand twenty years ago and let go dark for ten. It’s back, and I haven’t written a line of the code that’s running on it. Eleven agents do the research, own the backlog, build the pages, and deploy them. In the first nine days on the board, I did exactly one thing.
The interesting part isn’t that agents can write code. Everyone has seen that. It’s that the coordination disappeared — the tickets, the handoffs, the standups, the whole apparatus of keeping a product moving. That’s the expensive part in any company, and it’s the part nobody is selling you.
It didn’t work the first two times. Here’s what broke, what fixed it, and where it still falls down.
Links
* themeasuringcup.com — the site. Check it regularly; it changes without me
* leoandco.org — the live board. Backlog, blockers, and every number in this episode
* michaellight.org — more writing and episodes
* Previous episode — Your Agentic AI Is Decaffeinated — the argument this one puts to the test
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