Lessons from 1500 Company Brains: Design for Agents, Not Humans
jacob_posel · x · 2026-08-26
Based on experience building 1,500 company brains, the author highlights a common mistake: teams waste hours designing file structures that make sense to humans but ignore how agents retrieve information. The brain should be designed primarily for the agent, not the human team. Optimizing folder hierarchies prematurely is inefficient, as the best structure is often unknown until the agent uses the system.
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