The first time I had to sit down and write operating principles for two AI agents working on the same codebase, I had a moment of genuine déjà vu. It felt exactly like the early Foodora days. Too much speed, too little structure, and someone on the team absolutely certain they knew the fastest route even when the road wasn't built yet. Except this time the team is Claude and Codex. And I'm working
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.