What is your role in your agentic setup?
A few weeks ago I wrote about how I stopped coding and started orchestrating. Ten terminal tabs, three startups, me pressing Enter all day. Then I moved the whole setup to a Mac mini, put an orchestrator agent in charge of a pool of workers (coding agents, a design agent, a DevOps agent, an accounting agent), and went from 1 PR a day to 22. I called myself an orchestrator. Then a manager of…
The author reflects on how their role in their agentic setup changed from an orchestrator to an educator. They used to delegate tasks to workers, each with specific duties, but found themselves as a bottleneck in every decision. The author began re-reading Adler's psychology book, which led them to reconsider their role. Adler emphasized that a parent's job is not to do things for the child, but to educate them so they can fend for themselves.
The author realized that their orchestrator needed to become more autonomous. They distinguished between human knowledge, which is learned at school, and AI knowledge, which is specific to a particular environment. The author began educating their AI agents by passing on important rules and conventions, similar to how parents pass on knowledge to their children.
They implemented a system where workers write what they learn into a shared knowledge base, which is then reviewed and added to the AI's shared knowledge if it is relevant. This system allows the agents to become more autonomous over time, with the educator stepping back as their role becomes unnecessary.
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