Multitasking is dead. Long live parallelism.
Blog post from Redocly
The passage argues that AI agents make parallel work possible without the attention-splitting costs associated with human multitasking, because each agent independently handles a single task while the user manages a queue of assignments. It distinguishes multitasking, in which one person repeatedly shifts focus between tasks, from parallelism, in which multiple workers pursue separate tasks simultaneously. Using an archer metaphor, it emphasizes that the most important work occurs before an agent begins: users should clearly define the target, success criteria, risks, and stopping condition in a concise prompt or “pitch,” then let the agent execute without continual intervention. Anxiety about running several agents at once is presented as a sign of poorly scoped or insufficiently planned tasks rather than a flaw in parallelism itself. The proposed skill for an agent-enabled workplace is to repeatedly prepare, launch, and review well-defined tasks while other agents work independently.
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