Hacker News piece revisits Brooks's Law for the age of AI agents

An October 27 post on the Hacker News front page asks whether Brooks's Law from The Mythical Man-Month still holds for AI agents and LLMs. Agents can start work in milliseconds and never need rest, the post says, but sequential tasks stay sequential, and adding agents does not remove that limit. Coordination overhead also persists, shifting from managing people to managing agents: someone still has to define "done," review code, catch hallucinations and stitch results together. Without clear orchestration, the post adds, multiple agents can rapidly loop, rewriting each other's work.

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Not enough continuous observations to draw a trend yet.