Researcher jokes: you're the Bill Lumbergh of your AI agents
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-10-19
AI researcher François Fleuret shared an Office Space meme quipping that anyone orchestrating a fleet of agents has become Bill Lumbergh — the quintessential pointless-middle-manager boss — now issuing trivial directives to AI agents instead of humans.
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