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Grandpa Lissajous — A Loop-de-Loop

February 19, 2026 · AI, Architecture, Orchestration

"Back in my day, we deployed code by hand and hoped for the best. Now I sit in my chair and watch thirteen AI agents argue about it." — 👴 Grandpa Simpson, System Observer

Here's what my workflow actually looks like right now: nine iTerm tabs open, each running Kiro CLI with a different hat. I /paste an annotated screenshot of things I want fixed into one terminal and ask it to add bug fixes to the queue. Another tab is deploying and monitoring the deployment. A third is the core coding and implementation tab. A fourth switches to my Debug agent configuration so it can drive the browser. I'll have three or four projects running like this simultaneously, all day.

It's manual, but it's extremely fast. The problem is that it's me — I'm the orchestrator, the context holder, the one deciding which hat goes next. When I step away, everything stops.

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