LukeW open-sources Intent: isolated workspaces to orchestrate hundreds of AI agents

LukeW · x · 2026-09-02

Luke Wroblewski argues the next abstraction layer means agents handle applications while humans specify outcomes. His post notes leading developers now supervise hundreds of agents at once, which chat-era tools can't handle. He rebuilt and open-sourced Intent: task-level isolated workspaces, living specs, coordinator agents delegating to specialist sub-agents, and a higher-level agent managing work across workspaces and devices — aiming for observability and introspection over large-scale agentic work.

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