Long-running AI agents can produce more code and research than we can absorb. That output extends our capacity, but it does not automatically become our knowledge, judgment, or ability.
A Claude account ban forced our fallback stack back into the main role. This is how GPT, OpenCode, iKanban, and a skill-based AI Workflow kept work moving, where they still fall behind dynamic workflows, and why orchestration should become a portable plugin rather than a runtime feature.
We used to split tasks by hand and launch agents one by one. Claude Code dynamic workflows (ultracode mode) now write their own orchestration script and run a fleet of subagents, shown through three real workflows that built our iread RSS reader, leaving asynchronous agent-to-agent communication as the next open problem.