Like a Bicycle for the Brain — An Agent-Assisted Workplace

Photo by Robert Bye on Unsplash In 1973, Scientific American published a study comparing locomotion efficiency across species. The condor won. Humans were unremarkable. But a human on a bicycle became the most efficient mover on the planet — by a wide margin. Steve Jobs called the computer "a bicycle for the mind." I think we're looking at the next version of that bicycle. I've been running a multi-agent AI workspace as my daily driver for two months. 638 commits, 134K tokens of steering rules, four customer accounts. Not a prototype — it's how I work now. The key insight: the AI doesn't need better prompts. It needs to know how you work — your conventions, your quality bar, the things you check before you send a deliverable. Write that down, and every correction becomes a permanent rule. The system compounds. I wrote about what that actually looks like — what works, what surprised me, and what I'd tell someone staring at a blank editor wondering where to start. Read the full article o