Tag: ai
All the articles with the tag "ai".
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The Human Coordination Ceiling
A human can supervise several agents, but attention does not scale with token spend. Past a certain point, adding workers increases queues, conflicts, and missed failures faster than useful output.
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From Agent Scripts to Orchestration Systems
A few shell scripts can coordinate a small fleet surprisingly well. Beyond that point, durable state, retries, routing, observability, and recovery turn the experiment into an orchestration system.
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The Night Shift Is a Bounded Handoff
An overnight agent loop sounds like unattended productivity. In practice, the useful work happens before and after the run: bounded specifications, independent checks, forensic records, and a morning decision.
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How to Organise a Team of Agents
Agent teams can divide by task, role, or stage of work, but every extra communication path adds failure modes. The useful pattern is usually the smallest topology that matches the dependency graph.
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Running Parallel Agents Without Collisions
Parallel agents need more than separate terminal tabs. Useful concurrency depends on task boundaries, isolated workspaces, explicit ownership, and an integration path designed before the agents start.