Governing Agents Like Cooking Small Fish: How Lao Tzu Wrote the Multi-Agent Playbook 2,500 Years Ago

Feb 11 · 19 min read · On February 5th, 2026, a Reddit user made a post. The title was plain enough: "Claude Code just spawned 3 AI agents that talked to each other and finished my work." Three agents. Backend, frontend, code review — each claimed a piece. They ran simulta...