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IDK what everyone is doing anymore. Just why do you need 10 parallel agents doing things. How is this even a possible workflow for a person.

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LOL it definitely can get a little trippy but it's pretty doable! I can't get to 10 regularly but the space is moving in that direction (more agents in parallel hopefully equals more work done).

I liked this video a lot for a general idea of how it's possible, the main thing we need for 10 agents at once to be possible is less of a need for human intervention for agents, but I think it'll happen sooner (it may even be possible now with the right tools) than later.

https://youtu.be/o-pMCoVPN_k?si=cCBqufdg3nWcJDHD

I am thinking the same. Is the bottleneck for many people just how many different tasks they can press through a certain window of time?

I feel that maybe a couple of things in parallel could be useful at certain times, but more often the need is not for "one more jira ticket in the pipeline" but rather things like meetings, discussing strategy, clarifying things so they can be built at all as opposed to actually having ten crystal clear tasks to unleash the bot army on.

Ask a Manager.

I am a manager. I am the head of engineering at my company. I still don't understand what is going on.

If you start leaning more on coding agents, you quickly realize there are a lot of 2–30 minute windows where you’re just waiting for an agent to implement something or finish a review. In those pockets I generally spinning up small tasks or running a few parallel experiments with different models or approaches. Once you’re juggling multiple threads having isolated working environments becomes pretty essential. We're just trying to make the environment management and that whole workflow much less of a headache. But I don't think this is the best workflow for everyone its just what we've been seeing more people converge towards.

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