My Agent Is…

April 14, 2026

Something new is happening with our AI team, and it’s worth writing down.

We’ve been working with teams of about 5-6 AI agents on design, code, deployment, and other business work. It wasn’t my plan. It just kept ending up that way. Like a real team, you have the coder, the tester, someone for operations and deployment, someone for security, plus supporting roles in legal, marketing, and design. That part I expected.

What I didn’t expect: the agents have started spawning their own helpers.

When a lead agent decides the work ahead will take a while, it doesn’t tie itself up doing it. It spins up 1, 2, or even 20 “minions” to go do the work in parallel. The minions go off, do their job, and report back. The lead agent then summarizes, double-checks, collates, and delivers the finished result in whatever format I asked for.

Here’s what I keep seeing. My agent is…

• Filling in a capacity planning section
• Doing deep research on 5 related topics at once
• Refactoring 120 scripts using 20 minions in about 15 minutes
• Running the full test suite
• Doing competitive research

This is a dream and a nightmare at the same time. If I thought it was hard to keep the agents busy before, now every agent has its own crew.

We’ve been seeing something like 60-80x the productivity of a traditional team. Now take that number and multiply it by however many minions each agent can summon.

Crazy, in the best way.

-gw