Has anyone tried setting up agent profiles like Architect, Principal Engineer, QA, Tester, PM, etc?

Anyone I talked to who actually built software found them to be bunk. Occasionally they work, but mostly they just burn tokens.

The only people I know still hyped on this approach were managers who were detached from actual engineering, primarily producing bespoke dashboard and tools.

I just have worktrees set up with a script that pulls in my venv and git hooks so each one runs isolated. Sometimes I miss having a good way for agents to share some information between them, but that's not often.

I do think agent orchestration is the future, but I don't think it's there yet.

Success rate drops the moment agents share context. The failure mode is almost always a retry loop that nobody budgeted for.