Dev stacks three layers of supervisor agents to tame coding swarm stupidity
NYCounihan · x · 2026-10-25
A developer describes the biggest challenge of managing coding swarms: enforcing common sense in large projects. When told "ensure no database changes," an agent once copied the entire 500G database for a byte-by-byte comparison. Controlling unsupervised stupidity is like whack-a-mole; his fix is stacking supervisor agents on top — now three layers of common-sense supervisors, though each layer's performance eventually degrades too.
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