[HN Gopher] The mythical AI-agent month
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       The mythical AI-agent month
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2026-01-31 22:14 UTC (47 minutes ago)
        
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       | gemmarate wrote:
       | Brooks's law was about humans, but the spirit still applies: the
       | real bottleneck is how much of the system a human can keep in
       | their head at once. Most agent setups I've seen don't reduce that
       | load, they increase it: more surface area, more glue code, more
       | boilerplate that nobody fully understands.
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       | The only places they've worked well for me are roles where you
       | can afford to throw away 80% of the output (migrations, test
       | stubs, scaffolding) and keep a tight human-owned core. Treat
       | agents like interns you fire every night, not teammates you trust
       | with the architecture.
        
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