A Google DeepMind safety lead said this week that they're putting $10M behind multi-agent safety because "there just isn't really a field of research for multi-agent safety yet."
I read that and laughed, because I'm already running the thing the research field doesn't exist for yet. Most of us are. You spin up a couple of agents, hand them work, and somewhere in there you quietly become a manager of workers that don't think like workers.
Two days before that, PMI published the first official standard for AI in project work. It's a solid document. It also leaves the entire "how do you actually do this on a Tuesday" layer to you. So here's my Tuesday layer: five shifts I had to make, each one learned by getting it wrong first.
You stop filling the queue and start drawing the line
My first instinct with an agent was the same as with a person: here's work, go.
