Peter Steinberger on building in the agent era
THE SO WHAT
Steinberger's experience 'managing an army of agents' and nearly getting broken by the hype is a caution: orchestration and UX, not raw agent count, are where products live or die. If you're building with agents, constrain scope and design for failure modes rather than chasing maximal autonomy.
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