Almost all of the work I delegate to agents is work I could have done myself.

The agent gives me two things: more thoroughness (which is now always better) and faster completion.

I could sit down on a quiet day (which never happens) and type up a technical design doc for the team.

I could dig through the logs and metrics correlating the latency bump from overnight.

I could grep the codebase for the error message and trace through the code manually.

But the agent can do it faster and more thoroughly.

I don’t expect (or want) novelty or invention. The resulting technical design doc will not have amazing new design patterns or unthinkable performance optimizations. The log analysis may jump to wrong conclusions. The error root cause analysis may miss a key or unexpected flow.

Any specialness has to be prompted in. That’s our part.