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Comment by solomatov

4 days ago

> more like supervising 8-15 agents

How do they do it? (My own record is 5 agents, but it is not typical). Do they use gastown or something?

I often have 10+ running in parallel. I’m attacking parallel problems that aren’t interdependent. Sometimes adding additional products can bring me up to 15+.

Gotta have really good test harnesses so they can largely fix themselves.

  • But how do you cover such amount of multi tasking? Could you give an example? I mean what kind of tasks allow such a parallelization?

    • context switching across the entirety of the feature surface for an app

      You could easily have agents to work on login page, messaging feature, database/data model update, recommender system, backend api, etc

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Honestly, I dont know. I could be mistaken about the exact number of agents - but not wrong about fact of AI-driven workflows which is heavily automated, and goes on for hours.

He's one (small) step from distinguished engineer, with 20+ patents to his name, and is an embedded programmer (largely C/C++) with 30+ years of experience in the field; and I've known him for nearly as long, so I put a lot of credence to his words.

But we don't usually talk work; he's the guitarist in our band :) [I'm the bass] So we mainly chill over music + beer. And lately, it's been less chill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯