The best teams I've built were loosely controlled and tightly aligned. Micromanagement kills AI teams. The work is too complex, too ambiguous, too fast-moving. If you're telling senior engineers exactly what to build, you're wasting their judgment and your time. 🚫 But loose control without clarity is chaos. People need to deeply understand the problem, the constraints, and the success criteria. Then they need freedom to figure out the "how." I fostered a growth-focused cultu