"Unix philosophy got here first: instead of one agent doing everything, break the work into steps and assign each step its own agent. When you use this micro-distributed approach, each agent in the pipeline acts as a checkpoint that ensures quality control and standards are applied."
Phillip Merrick on scaling from dozens to thousands of #AI agents, in Isaac Sacolick's StarCIO piece on 13 C-level roles.
Read the article: 📖 https://drive.starcio.com/2026/10/thousands-of-ai-agents-13-c-level-leaders-responsibilities/