Introduction Not long ago, one of my engineering directors came to me with a request: His team seemed overloaded, and he wanted to hire another engineer. I decided to test a research assistant I had been building—an AI agent connected to our internal systems via MCP—by asking it to analyze the team’s workload and write […]
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