Your role: director of agents

Director of Agents Concept

Typing is no longer the hard part. What's left is the engineering: deciding what to build, defining "done", and proving the result works in production.

What you own now:

Architecture and planning. Agents implement fast enough to build the wrong thing very efficiently
The definition of done. Tests, dashboards, alerts, and a rollback path, not just a green build
Context. Architecture docs, ADRs, and CLAUDE.md files are now your most valuable output: every agent and every engineer reads them
Review and approval. With a proper diff viewer, and with ownership pushed to the right domain reviewers

Instrument before you scale. AI code can work in testing and fail silently in production. More agent output with no metrics or traces means more silent failures. The baseline stack:

Prometheus (metrics)
Grafana (dashboards)
OpenTelemetry (instrumentation)
Splunk or similar (log aggregation)

Observability Stack

Don't become the bottleneck. If every agent PR waits on you, you've recreated the problem at a new layer. Keep yourself for cross-cutting decisions and let domain owners approve the rest.