AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing a new model forward. Instead of simply chatting with a single bot, users are expected to manage entire teams of AI agents. These multi-agent systems divide tasks among themselves and run in parallel, signaling a shift away from dialogue-based interfaces toward AI as a delegated workforce.
Examples of this trend include Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s enterprise platform, Frontier. However, these agents still require intensive human oversight and do not yet reliably outperform individual professionals. The industry’s vision casts developers and knowledge workers as “middle managers” who supervise task execution and correct mistakes.