Gotanda Style: Do AI Agents Really Need Meetings?

TL;DR Once you start running multiple AI coding agents, coordination eventually becomes its own bottleneck. For long-running maintenance workflows, the cost of conversations, context, and tokens starts to add up. We call the pattern Gotanda Style : agents do not talk to each other directly. Instead, they leave small structured signals in a shared environment. Other agents read those signals later. This is a lighter introduction to a workflow we use on a roughly 200,000-line Python repository, co