47 seconds of attention, 20 AI agents: the math needs orchestration.

Engineers cap at 5 supervised agents. The rest of us cap at 47 seconds. Both ceilings lift by stealing one layer from devs.

It’s tempting to imagine 100 AI agents running in parallel, around the clock. That’s the idea I keep flinching toward when the day’s getting away from me. There’s one problem with it: my own capacity is the limit. Most agents can validate their own work, but enough still need me to look — and the engineering world has solved it, so, let’s borrow it for …