Developer Productivity

I went to a conference a couple of weeks ago. During the keynote, the speaker asked the audience “how many of you have 40 or more agents running at any given time?” About a dozen hands went up. He then asked “How many of you have 30 or more agents running?” Another dozen. This continued down to 20, 15, 10, 5, and eventually 1. Each time he asked, another 15-25 hands went up in the air.

Ai You’re still the bottleneck

By Allen Helton 22 September 2026

The tech industry went from tokenmaxxing to agentmaxxing, which is arguably worse. Here's why.

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