> While this unattended example is impressive, this is why you need to guide things more closely and make sure the design is itself scalable and maintainable. Otherwise you can get wad-o-slop.

Indeed, I'm curious how much better/worse one human with "one agent" could do that same functionality in a OS from scratch. Last time I did this exercise, I took Cursor's shitty attempt from "millions of lines of source code" to about ~20K (https://emsh.cat/en/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/), and seemingly one of my conclusions still hold true ~1 year later:

> One human using one agent seems far more effective than one human using thousands of agents