Draft: Why Your AI Agents Need a Tech Lead

You've got Cursor. You've got Claude Code. Maybe you've got a couple of aider instances running. Your AI coding setup is serious. And somehow, shipping still takes forever. The tools aren't the problem. The coordination is. The missing layer Here's what a good tech lead actually does, stripped of the politics: Reads the codebase and understands what's there Takes a vague feature request and turns it into specific, scoped tickets Figures out which engineer (or agent) should handle what Reviews the diff when it comes back, catches the stuff that works technically but breaks the system conceptually Merges or sends back with comments AI agents are excellent at step 4 when the ticket is good. They're bad at steps 1, 2, and 3. And they can't do step 5 at all, because they don't know what they didn't write. You're doing steps 1-3 manually every time you prompt. That's the bottleneck. What Draft does Draft is an AI tech lead. You describe a feature in plain English. It reads your codebase, gen