Agents have clearly disproven the mythical man-month — and yet, sometimes…
nlarusstone · x · 2026-08-22
The author quips that AI agents have clearly disproven the mythical man-month — after all, agents can be replicated and parallelized without limit. But the trailing "and yet…" hints that massively parallel agent collaboration still runs into the same old coordination overhead and stepping-on-each-other problems. A resonant one-liner on the current state of agent engineering.
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