Oh no… VCs will see this and take it seriously

It's exciting to see so much experimentation when it comes to form factors for agent orchestration!

The first question that comes to mind is: how do you think about cost control? Putting a ton in a giant context window is expensive, but unintentionally fanning out 10 agents with a slightly smaller context window is even more expensive. The answer might be "well, don't do that," and that certainly maps to the UNIX analogy, where you're given powerful and possibly destructive tools, and it's up to you to construct the workflow carefully. But I'm curious how you would approach budget when using Axe.

Yes, the more you delegate, the more you need to define the ultimate business outcomes you want, your taste, your brand and your technology preferences.

This is why building a "dark factory" is hard; at a certain point, you need to either externalize all that information into a "digital twin" of yourself, or you have to stop caring what gets built.

Agreed; here's the link for anyone looking for it:

https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from...

Worth pointing out that Postgres is perfectly usable without an admin dashboard at all