What 2,000 beads taught me about multi-agent development

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Three weeks ago I wrote about building a self-coordinating AI development team. At that point the system had processed about 1,000 beads and was starting to feel like more than a prototype.

Since then, the bead counter passed 3,400. The system has been running almost continuously on my laptop, building features, fixing its own bugs, and – most instructively – breaking in ways I didn’t anticipate.

This is what I learned.

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What 2,000 beads taught me about multi-agent development