Matt Pocock is testing an agent as a project's single point of contact — and it's hard
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-07
- TypeScript educator Matt Pocock describes an experiment: give one agent a single point of contact over an entire project, running everything through background agents.
- The orchestrator stays always-available, knows everything happening, and tracks workstreams better than he can.
- He admits it's essentially trying to turn an agent into a strategic thinker — very hard so far, and it often becomes a "slop cannon," but worth challenging his priors.
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