I Replaced My Prompt Pile with a Constitution: Organizing AI Coding Agents into a 16-Role Company

Description and use

<p>Like a lot of you, I started with one AI coding agent and a growing pile of prompts. Every incident produced a new patch: "when you do X, remember Y." Within a few months the pile was unreadable, the agent ignored half of it, and I still had to re-explain the same decisions every session.</p> <p>The turning point wasn't a better model. It was a different question. Instead of asking <em>"what prompt fixes this?"</em> I started asking <em>"who owns this decision?"</em></p> <h2> 1. Personality stickers vs. enforceable charters </h2> <p>Most "AI team" templates you find are personality stickers

Problem

<p>Like a lot of you, I started with one AI coding agent and a growing pile of prompts. Every incident produced a new patch: "when you do X, remember Y." Within a few months the pile was unreadable, the agent ignored half of it, and I still had to re-explain the same decisions every session.</p> <p>The turning point wasn't a better model. It was a different question. Instead of asking <em>"what prompt fixes this?"</em> I started asking <em>"who owns this decision?"</em></p> <h2> 1. Personality stickers vs. enforceable charters </h2> <p>Most "AI team" templates you find are personality stickers

Outcome

<p>Like a lot of you, I started with one AI coding agent and a growing pile of prompts. Every incident produced a new patch: "when you do X, remember Y." Within a few months the pile was unreadable, the agent ignored half of it, and I still had to re-explain the same decisions every session.</p> <p>The turning point wasn't a better model. It was a different question. Instead of asking <em>"what prompt fixes this?"</em> I started asking <em>"who owns this decision?"</em></p> <h2> 1. Personality stickers vs. enforceable charters </h2> <p>Most "AI team" templates you find are personality stickers

Evidence

I Replaced My Prompt Pile with a Constitution: Organizing AI Coding Agents into a 16-Role Company

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