In essence, I've found that the dark software factory process, which I was so excited about in February, just doesn't apply cleanly to the majority of my work. It does work well for some small subset of my tasks: for example, I can fire off simple bug fixes in parallel or large, functionally-equivalent refactorings. However, for the majority of my work, the highly iterative design workflow seems to work best, which means that nearly all the time I'm right there in the thread with the agents.