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by vadchen 26 days ago
The sharpest con for me is blind spots: solo you're the author, the reviewer and the QA, and all three share the same wrong assumptions. Same goes for weaknesses: on a team someone covers what you're bad at, solo nobody does. LLMs patch this surprisingly well on the technical side - it's a reviewer that didn't write the code, but much less on marketing, positioning, all the stuff outside the editor.
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james_ross 26 days ago
this issue resonates for me very much, as a one person startup experimenter in 2026 like a whole bunch of other people. I have a day job with lots of human interaction, but I've been trying to find the edges of what's possible as a single person on my fun side project, and I still haven't found them. I built a product in 3 months, and then wondered if I could commercialise it in another three, which I've now done. The unlock for me was an agent framework a friend made that allows me to "hire" collaborators that don't just take orders, but push back, do research and challenge my thinking. I've made a virtual head of product, a virtual head of marketing, a chhief of staff, etc, and can only say I've been blown away by what they've added to my thinking and my capabilities. They totally reframed my approach to building my web site, choosing a commercial back end, and commencing the marketing journey. It's not magic, but it encodes a management philosophy that resonates with me and I still have no idea where the limits are with what I can do alone... https://github.com/normannoble/agent-framework
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vadchen 24 days ago
Sounds interesting, is it similar to BMAD Method personas?
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james_ross 23 days ago
I don't _think_ so, but my understanding of BMAD is second hand. I gather it provides multiple types of agents who play different roles but that those roles are predefined. The frame work I am using lets you "hire" people of any kind of role, based on a job description, a personality, an autonomy ladder and access to tools that you define, and it operates in a session-based mode. It's a bit like having 1 on 1's with different experts and it has helped me immensely with my knowledge and skill gaps on the commercial side.
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