We started running "pirate and architect" pods at Coinbase back in May of this year and I used this slide to talk the team through it. It works. 1 pirate, 1 architect, and a part-time designer. It lets each archetype lean in to their superpower and get more shit done without all the coordination overhead and "what if-isms". The pirate ships like mad, is product-minded and customer-obsessed. Always willing to throw-away code for a better version. The pirate is usually the DRI at the beginning too, working with customers, driving requirements, and a ship plan. The architect makes sure stuff is built for scale, takes the pirate's prototype, and drives its scale-out through spec for agents. The designer is building with both to constantly shape the experience and hill-climb to delight. There's a helpful mental model that I like: -Make it possible. -Make it reliable. -Make it delightful (or efficient). Previously, those 3 were done in a waterfall approach and was slow. Most people were just stuck on "make it possible." With agents and a new way of working, you have every opportunity to parallelize them and go 100x faster.