Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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This article is great 馃憤. The stronger the agent's capabilities, the more it requires h...

This article is great 馃憤. The stronger the agent's capabilities, the more it requires human orchestration. People are the bottleneck, so how can we arrange agents and related co...

May 29, 2026 路 1 min read

This article is great 馃憤.

The stronger the agent's capabilities, the more it requires human orchestration.

People are the bottleneck, so how can we arrange agents and related complex decisions well?

When to parallel and when to serial?

When should we stop completely and think independently instead of opening ten more agents?

The author explains arrangement tax in detail and gives some really good advice 馃挕

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