You can't just build from the top down
I'm starting to see a split happening with the software engineers, AI builders, founders, whatever you want to call them.
There's a big group that's just trying to automate everything from the top down.
And then there's people who are trying to get down to lower levels with their agent and actually direct it and tell it what to do instead of handing it off to another bigger orchestrator agent.
It's really cool and sexy that the orchestrator can actually orchestrate subagents now and build a usable product. And it's a lot of fun to use.
But every time I've done that, I get a much worse result compared to if I actually use a much faster, less intelligent model and give it clear instructions and iterate over and over again over time and have much more human input and human in the loop interactions.
And frankly, I don't know if you'll ever actually be able to get away from this if you want to stand out.
While sure, the orchestrator method will always work and will always create products that function and are useful. I still use it regularly to build internal tools for myself.
But if you actually want that polished look and feel with real human intent, you're going to have to get into the lower levels.
You can't just build from the top down.