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.Simon Last on the shift from doing the work to managing agents, why docs and databases still matter, and what it takes to coordinate swarms of AI.

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Lea Thompson3 days ago

@simonlast docs as agent control panel makes sense. hope it doesn't turn into another layer of noise.

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aihuoche dekuaizi3 days ago

@simonlast ChatGPT 6 Astra怎么没有了

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@simonlast The framing I keep landing on: agents are fast at producing and slow at agreeing. Docs and databases survive because they're the one place a human and an agent can disagree about the same object, in public, and settle it. Structure isn't storage. It's the agreement layer.

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