Is it good?

Someone posts a video. They've got a swarm of agents: one writing code, one doing research, one managing a database, one talking to another agent who's talking to another agent. It looks impressive. They're the conductor of an enormous orchestra and they want you to see how many instruments they control.

There's a guy on Twitter promising that Claude plus Polymarket will retire you. "Basic arbitrage gigs net around $25 an hour, but dialed-in ones scale to millions." Zero proof. Just potential! It reads like a late-night infomercial.

Cool. Are you playing a symphony or just getting as many musicians together as possible to bang on their instrument? Is any of this actually good?

Making things is hard. It requires taste, decisions, a point of view. Orchestration is easy by comparison. It's logistics! It's plumbing. And plumbing is important, but nobody goes to a restaurant because the toilet flushes like a beast.

So now when I see one of these posts—autonomous workflows running workflows, trading bots that'll retire you by Thursday—I just ask one question:

Is it good?

If the answer isn't obvious, it's not.