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At the end of my last post I said there's a cognitive cost to managing workflows and agents. I've noodled on that a bit ... One of the risks with agents is the same problem I ran into with smart homes (aka IoT).

You start off getting one light bulb and it's great. Then a couple more bulbs, maybe a robot vacuum, some switches, a couple of cams, the doorbell. Suddenly you're managing 10, 15 things with schedules, timers, software updates, and some things you've forgotten the passwords for.

It's not made your life easier and the smart home is a real mission. You start to get really fed up, really fast. I'm seeing the same thing with AI and agents. One process, one schedule, one agent running. Then two, then ten. Now you've got a problem managing the agents.