.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on personal agents: 10 specialized chiefs of staff beat one universal agent. One job each means you can see exactly where it's failing. "The worst part about doing cross-domain joins with your personal agent is that the more work you give it, the more understanding of what's going on you're sacrificing." "And no one is taking responsibility for that sacrifice. Agents don't have any responsibility." "With a universal agent that's doing all things, I can't adjust how much understanding I'm sacrificing." "It points me towards: maybe down the road, the sub-agents people use will be very vertically focused, and we have a chief of staff type agent that coordinates between them." "You need vertically focused agents where this agent is more responsible, psychologically, for these things. I want quality checks that make sure it's doing those things correctly. It doesn't need to focus on anything else, it has one focus area." "I wonder if that's going to help people get at least a loose sense of responsibility on top of agents." @alexatallah