This Startup Runs Its Whole Product Team on Self-Spawning Agents — Here's What Broke
imtanay · reddit · 2026-10-18
The founder of Neuron, a runtime where AI agents assemble their own teams, shares how his entire product team runs on it: research, orchestration, project ownership, marketing, finance, and review agents are spawned mid-conversation with their own instructions and models, wired to GitHub and Jira via MCP. Honest gaps: agents can't cleanly escalate decisions back to humans, no retry/backoff on rate limits, and no resume when SSE streams drop. Pre-revenue; he's booking 30-minute calls Oct 18-22 to find where "agent teams" break in practice.
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