"It Sends a System Message to My Agent Fleet": Reboots Now Brief AI Agents Like Engineers
kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-04
A user shares his increasingly surreal AI agent workflow: whenever a reboot is needed, a system message goes out to his agent fleet, telling the agents to wrap up their work—like engineers being informed a server is going down. He even toyed with having them report status over audio: "Yes, sir, will be done in 5 minutes, sir." His takeaway: things keep getting weirder as agent-driven operations start to mirror real engineering orgs.
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