Why 8 AI Workers Made Me Less Productive Until I Built a Control Tower
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Why 8 AI Workers Made Me Less Productive Until I Built a Control Tower At 1 a.m., one dashboard was already flashing at 97% utilization. Why did a setup with 4 desktops, 8 AI workers, and 1 bot control channel make me feel slower instead of faster? One lane was writing code, one was running 12 automation scripts, one was handling 6 routine tasks, and one was sorting 4 months of material. I was sitting there with Telegram on my phone, acting like a one-person air traffic controller, and the answer was painfully clear: if the architecture is wrong, AI just multiplies noise.