Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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Three-stage vision: From "human-led tools" to "workflow automation", and ultimately to an "autonomous

Three-stage vision: From "human-led tools" to "workflow automation", and ultimately to an "autonomous decision-making system", in which multiple agents work together to...

July 28, 2025 · 1 min read

Three-stage vision: From "human-led tools" to "workflow automation", and ultimately to an "autonomous decision-making system", in which multiple agents work together to play the role of a new employee.

The company will hire people for strategic insights, talents and tastes, and the entire company will be run by a team of Agents.

The model of "one person commanding a team of professional Agents" in this vision means that the role of humans will shift from tedious execution to high-level strategy formulation and order issuance.

In this environment, newly added strategic talents will no longer need to learn a lot of operational details, but will quickly master how to efficiently interact with AI Agents and issue instructions.

The new organizational structure can achieve the effect of 1000 people with a high degree of human-machine collaboration.

It is not difficult to understand why so many small start-up AI teams can achieve results that seemed to require a large investment of resources in the past.

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