AGENTIC AI AND THE MYTHICAL AGENT-MONTH

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

The concept of 'Scalable Agency', where a developer could theoretically spin up thousands of agents to complete tasks faster, relies on a flawed assumption that software engineering is an embarrassingly parallel task. Context loading is not the same as common knowledge, and reading tokens is not the same as understanding the causal chain of changes across a system. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Multi-agent systems do not escape this law, they simply hit the wall of state-space explosion faster than humans do.