Thorsten Ball
One thing that I've come to really appreciate is the ability for orbs to spawn up other orbs. It sounds like novelty feature at first, but it's incredible how much it allows you to automate. Right now I'm optimizing a specific part of our codebase to be more agent-friendly: I want agents to check performance in production via a canary before they ship something that touches a certain database. So I have one orb that writes the scripts and tooling and makes changes to AGENTS.md files and every time it makes a change, it pushes them, spawns 3 new orbs and tells them to do a certain task (without mentioning the change we made). Then it waits for those orbs to report back and once they're done it reads their threads (also super handy) and compares how they did. Then it tweaks, pushes, tries again. Orbs as evals for how agent-friendly the codebase is.
