'You are a subagent': a take on task management in the AI era
lxfater · x · 2026-11-01
A poster shares two ideas about task management in the AI era: humans are essentially just another subagent of top models, and humans are a non-concurrent resource that can only handle one task at a time. His conclusion: start treating yourself as a subagent to be orchestrated by a main controller model like a future Opus 5.5.
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