Building an AI Agent with Subagents and Skills

Every time you ask AI for help, it agrees. Fast, confident, and it never tells you your plan has holes. That's the problem Arete is built to fix.

Jesus built a brainstorm agent on Claude Code skills that guides you through five phases -- Ground, Explore, Decide, Stress, Ship -- before you commit to anything. The output is an architectural decision record and an implementation plan you actually own.

In this episode he demos it live, shows how parallel subagents work without polluting your main context, and answers the honest questions: tokens burned, vendor lock-in, debugging subagents, and whether this works with a team.