https://brianhengen.us/tags/multi-agent/Recent content in Multi-Agent on Brian HengenHugoen-usSun, 16 Aug 2026 17:05:08 -0400https://brianhengen.us/posts/when-every-developer-has-an-agent/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500https://brianhengen.us/posts/when-every-developer-has-an-agent/<figure><img src="https://brianhengen.us/posts/when-every-developer-has-an-agent/every-developer-has-an-agent.png" alt="Four developers, each paired with their own AI agent, streams of work converging through a single deterministic gate into one shared codebase"> </figure> <p>When every developer has an agent, the developer-and-agent pair quietly becomes the unit that ships software. A 2025 preregistered field experiment with 776 professionals found that, on product-innovation tasks, individuals using AI matched the performance of two-person teams working without it. That does not mean AI replaces everything a team contributes, but it does change the unit and speed at which work gets produced. See <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w33641">The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise</a></p>