Somewhere in the guts of your next software project, a quiet revolution is taking shape — not one AI agent fumbling through a monolithic task, but an entire hierarchy of them: strategists, team leads, and specialists, each with its own memory, its own lane, and its own compounding understanding of your codebase. The architecture is deceptively simple — three layers, configuration-driven teams, one deployment command. The implications are not simple at all. This is the story of how multi-agent delegation systems are rewriting the rules of autonomous software engineering, and why the smartest teams in the industry are betting everything on them.
Figure 1 · The AI Army That Manages Itself.
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