zetalyrae: opening 20 agent tabs isn't intelligence augmentation
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-05
zetalyrae pushes back on the claim that "your agent count is the size of your intelligence," arguing that people running 20 agent tabs aren't meaningfully smarter than before AI. Defining intelligence as the operator-plus-agent-swarm unit, he sees no real augmentation—just the same mid output repeated 20x, or work people lack the knowledge to understand.
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