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Twelve Agents. One Resource. Zero Supervision. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? You know that moment when you finally parallelise your agent fleet and watch with pride as twelve subagents sprint off to do the work of a whole team... straight into the same shared resource. Maybe it is the one licensed tool seat. Maybe it is the office coffee machine you told everyone could "handle concurrent requests". Maybe you set a dozen agents loose to find the funniest cat picture on the internet, and they ...

The fastest way for an AI coding agent to create expensive work is to start coding too soon. A request arrives, the agent infers the missing requirements, selects an architecture, edits several files, and produces a plausible patch. The patch may compile. It may even pass a narrow test. But it can still solve the wrong problem. Superpowers is a methodology and a set of composable skills intended to change that default. Rather than treating code generation as the first step, it asks the agen...

Long Story Short Web APIs can communicate failure through HTTP status codes, but batch jobs need to terminate in a way that allows the execution environment to recognize that the process has failed. In this case, I changed the error handling to throw an exception. This caused failed Lambda invocations to be reflected in the CloudWatch Errors metric, which allowed the alarm to trigger. Error handling does not end inside the application. We also need to think about whether failures can...

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