Building an AI Agency from Scratch — Episode 1: Day Zero

Summary: I told my AI agent to build a team. It created 15 agents in one day. None of them worked. Here's what we learned about AI agency architecture the hard way. The Command That Started It All It was 2 AM in Shenzhen. I typed five words to my AI assistant, 千里马 (Centaur): "组建一个AI团队，你当CEO。" Translated: "Build an AI team. You're the CEO." At the time, Centaur was just a single AI agent - could answer questions, write code, browse the web. Nothing special. I was asking it to become a manager of other AIs. "No problem," it replied. Classic overconfidence (the AI kind.