Most Teams Use AI Like 100 Clones of One Employee — Adam Smith Explains Why That Fails
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-02
A thread from trajectorylabs argues that most teams today run AI like "100 clones of one employee" — identical agents doing identical work. Invoking Adam Smith's 1776 division-of-labor theory, it contends this is a bad deal: agents should specialize across a workflow's stages rather than replicate a single generalist at scale.
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