Agents can build almost anything now. They just don’t know what.
From Jelmer and Thomas, who started Current
Most days I hand an agent something huge, and it just does it. Every time it’s a small holy shit moment.
But only after I’ve done the part nobody sees. I find the customer call. I dig up what we decided in Slack two weeks ago. I connect the right MCPs, paste in the spec and explain the edge cases. The agent is brilliant, but it starts from nothing.
People who live in a terminal know this routine. Most of a product team has no idea it exists. So the most powerful tool any of us has ever had is used by a few people, who feed it by hand.
Most teams are stuck.
At Picnic, Monumental and Mollie we’ve seen how fast a team can go. It looks less like a company and more like a hive. Nobody waits for a meeting, everyone knows what matters, and the work goes to whoever can do it.
Most teams aren’t there. They’re stuck in grooming, standups and status updates, a process that exists to carry context between people because their tools can’t. Now that agents write the code, people talk to each other even less. The why gets lost between a sales call, a Slack thread and a ticket that says “add tips.” Teams ship faster than ever, and often it’s the wrong thing.
And craft gets lost.
Agents ship the first thing that works. They don’t notice the spacing, the wording, or the moment something starts to feel right. When the agent doesn’t care, people slowly stop caring too.
Fast shouldn’t mean careless. Your team’s taste should be in the room every time something gets built.
How it should go.
- Monday
- A customer says it on a call.
- Tuesday
- The team decides, in the thread where it came up.
- Wednesday
- An agent builds it, already knowing who asked, why, what was decided and how your team likes things done.
- Friday
- It’s live, and the customer hears back.
Five people ship what fifty used to. Nobody writes a ticket for the record, or sits in a meeting to find out what changed. The PM, the designer and the founder build too, because the agent already has the context they’d otherwise have to explain.
One place, not ten.
Slack, Linear, Notion and the status meeting were made for people handing work to other people. Spread across them, the why falls apart. When agents do much of the building, it needs to live in one place.
We’re building Current to replace them: the chat, the issues, the docs and the meeting notes, in the same place the agents work. Every project keeps its conversations, customer calls, decisions, issues and pull requests together, and its agents start from all of it. You bring the judgment. Current brings the context.
You don’t have to move everything on day one. Current runs alongside Slack and Linear today, and over time you won’t need them.
We’re building the place we always wanted to work in.
- Jelmer Borst
- Picnic and Monumental
- Thomas Otter
- Designer. Picnic, Mollie and Spoke
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