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I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory, which h...
By @emollick
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Emollick argues agentic AI needs organizational theory: spans of control (humans max ~10 reports, 100 subagents likely too many), boundary objects for coordination, proper coupling. Calls for more experiments with agent organization
I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory, which has actually spent a lot of time understanding how to deal with complex hierarchies, information limits, and spans of control.
Right now most agentic AI systems seem to pretend that models have basically unlimited ability to manage subagents when that is clearly not true. We need measures of spans of control for AI. A human tops out at less than 10 direct reports. I am pretty sure that 100 subagen
Agentic AIOrganizational theoryMulti-agent systemsAI architecture
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I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory, which has actually spent a lot of time understanding how to deal with complex hierarchies, information limits, and spans of control.
Right now most agentic AI systems seem to pretend that models have basically unlimited ability to manage subagents when that is clearly not true. We need measures of spans of control for AI. A human tops out at less than 10 direct reports. I am pretty sure that 100 subagen
Agentic AIOrganizational theoryMulti-agent systemsAI architecture