{
  "id": 18608095,
  "title": "My Agents Ran in Parallel. I Didn't",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/my-agents-ran-in-parallel-i-didnt",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-07T01:17:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/arnold_wang_dfbbb991be9ff/my-agents-ran-in-parallel-i-didnt-2enh"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On November 2 at 10:18 in the morning, ten of the reporter's coding-agent sessions were waiting for his next instruction, with the oldest session being 16 minutes old. The last session was not cleared until 84 minutes later. Without a queue, he would need to open each session individually to find out what they needed. With one queue, he could see all eleven sessions simultaneously. Over the course of five days, beginning from November 2 to 6, he had at least one unanswered card in 73% of the minutes between 8 am and 6 pm, with the peak reaching 15 cards at once. The agents ran in parallel, but the reporter did not, as each agent that needed him stopped and waited silently in its own window, making it impossible for him to see all of them at once.",
  "summary": "A review queue for people who run many AI agents, and the rule that keeps it safe: the model proposes, code can veto. By Arnold Wang, Chief Software Architect at Ingeniux Corporation. The examples and numbers come from DSH (DeepSeek Harness), an agent harness with a plugin system that I use every day. I have only run this pattern there. Disclosure: the ideas, the data and the design are mine,…",
  "key_points": [
    "Ten coding-agent sessions were waiting for instructions at 10:18 on November 2",
    "Reporter used a single queue to view all eleven sessions simultaneously",
    "73% of minutes between 8 am and 6 pm had at least one unanswered agent"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The lack of a centralized queue forces human operators into a bottleneck where they cannot manage multiple autonomous agents simultaneously without losing significant productivity to fragmented communication windows.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}