XKCD skewers corporate agent sprawl: hire one agent to summarize 14, get 15
stephenroller · x · 2026-10-27
A widely shared XKCD-style comic captures how companies actually adopt agents: facing 14 agents producing reports and dashboards, management resolves to build one more agent to summarize the others and flag only what matters — which soon means 15 agents producing reports.
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