One folder, 39 agents, 8 departments: what a 2026 data science team looks like
mdancho84 · x · 2026-11-10
Data scientist Matt Dancho showed how he replaced a 20-person team with a single Python-built "agency": 8 departments and 39 Claude agents under .claude/agents, each role a markdown file (blog writer, SEO optimizer, ad creative, crisis responder, sales follow-up, competitor analyst, etc.) with its own memory, tools, and job.
His takeaways: work that needed a team of 20 a year ago now needs one AI data scientist who can build, ship, monitor, and explain agent systems — and agents don't own results, people do. The scarce role isn't a prompt engineer but someone accountable for what the agents produce.
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