For a while I'd watch the AI work and quietly grumble: a fairly big task, and it would finish one module before starting the next, while I just sat there waiting for it to clear one before the other's turn came up. The work itself was fine—it was just slow. Slow because it was stuck in a queue.
Then it clicked: a lot of these modules have nothing to do with each other, so why make them go one after another? Split them up, let several agents work at the same time, done.
What I want, and where it stops
What I want is simple: the same work, for roughly the same tokens, with the wall-clock time cut way down.
But let me put the boundary up front—not every task can be split this way. This is just an approach I've worked out for myself; take what's useful.
