Howie Liu says one AI agent matches three engineers at 3x speed

The shift isn't one agent helping with a task, it's one person running 20-30 agents in parallel and acting like a manager. In software, that means dozens of branches moving at once, with agents writing code, iterating, and responding over multi-hour loops instead of a single IDE session. Howie Liu's framing: one agent on a branch can match about three engineers at roughly 3x speed, turning strong ICs into supervisors of stacked, parallel output.