The value of teams of people has declined.
- The value of teams of people has declined.
- It used to be a few things:
- 1) More perspectives to make it more likely that collaborative debate would produce a great result.
- 2) More bodies to execute the vision faster.
- It used to not be possible to spin up patient, knowledgeable people to do cognitive labor for you.
- Even if it took a long time to spin someone up, it was worth it.
- Humans take a ton of time to read into their long-term buffer context (you have to stream it in over a thin channel that takes significant wall clock time), and they rapidly forget it
- A slow start, but now you have scaled your ability to execute over time.
- But tasks are orders of magnitude easier to hand off to agents than to people.
- Agents don't get bored.
- They understand all jargon.
- They can handle messy infodumps
- They don't have to be convinced; they don't have emotions to navigate.
- So now the benefit of teams of people are way lower.
- Especially if you can spin up 100x agents in the time it would take to spin up one team member.
- So now the benefit of spinning up other team members is almost entirely the first benefit.
- Which requires people to have useful judgment and knowledge to complement what the team already has.
- It used to be that as long as someone was competent it was worth it to spin them up.
- Now it's only if they bring something different and valuable to the table.