I’ve seen some software engineers in tech orgs behave in similar ways, where I’m really unsure whether they actually managed to 10x their productivity using the super elaborate systems they constructed, with hierarchical teams of AI agents, each having different roles, and the humans just being their orchestrator, or whether they just get extremely excited about these possibilities and set up all these layers of “automation” without this actually leading to more useful output. I can certainly imagine it leads to more output, but I’m somewhat skeptical if it’s high quality, sustainable output, or just huge amounts of ~slop.
I’ve seen some software engineers in tech orgs behave in similar ways, where I’m really unsure whether they actually managed to 10x their productivity using the super elaborate systems they constructed, with hierarchical teams of AI agents, each having different roles, and the humans just being their orchestrator, or whether they just get extremely excited about these possibilities and set up all these layers of “automation” without this actually leading to more useful output. I can certainly imagine it leads to more output, but I’m somewhat skeptical if it’s high quality, sustainable output, or just huge amounts of ~slop.