Viral baseball first-base coach joke nails how today's agent workflows spoon-feed models step by step

paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-28

A joke circulating in AI circles: a first-base coach telling a runner to "stay here until you can go to the next one, and a colleague is waiting there for you" is being read as a perfect metaphor for current agent orchestration — splitting long tasks into tiny steps with a handoff at every node. It resonated widely with developers building multi-step agent workflows.

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