Daniel Zherenkov builds AI products for a 70,000-person company, then went home and built one of his own with a team of agents on his own budget. What he learned is less about prompting than about where to draw lines.
His operating model, in four parts:
Guardrails: assume a bad output will ship, and ask how fast you would notice it
Memory: three layers plus one shared store, split by topic or by date
Models: the expensive one writes the plan, the cheap one builds it
Decisions: agents recommend, you sign off, and that never moves
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