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Startup Builds 400 AI Supervisors, All Reporting to One Human Intern

Six months after launching an orchestration agent to dispatch subagents and escalate failures to a human, the startup has 400 supervisor agents and one human intern.

A lone intern sits beneath a wall-sized org chart as hundreds of AI supervisor screens send red escalation arrows toward her laptop and lunch request.
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Its wall-sized org chart names the intern as the final escalation point. When she submitted a lunch request, all 400 supervisors flagged it as an unresolved staffing risk and escalated it back to her.

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