Great article
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html
> The internet made coordination cheap and gave us the bazaar. Coding agents made implementation cheap and gave us the Winchester Mystery House. What we’re missing are the tools and conventions that make attention cheap, that let maintainers absorb contributions at machine speed and let good ideas surface among the noise. Until we figure this out, the bazaar will keep getting louder without getting smarter, and the best ideas in our Mystery Houses will be forgotten once we stop maintaining them.
> The new challenge is developing systems and processes for managing the deluge. We don’t need eyeballs to find bugs in the software, we need eyeballs to find bugs before they reach the software.
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html
> The internet made coordination cheap and gave us the bazaar. Coding agents made implementation cheap and gave us the Winchester Mystery House. What we’re missing are the tools and conventions that make attention cheap, that let maintainers absorb contributions at machine speed and let good ideas surface among the noise. Until we figure this out, the bazaar will keep getting louder without getting smarter, and the best ideas in our Mystery Houses will be forgotten once we stop maintaining them.
> The new challenge is developing systems and processes for managing the deluge. We don’t need eyeballs to find bugs in the software, we need eyeballs to find bugs before they reach the software.
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