Many Agents, Many Views

Luke Wroblewski explains why Intent, a tool for coordinating AI agents, lets agents draw their plans and show before-and-after screenshots so people can judge work without reading code.

Luke Wroblewski is a product designer who works on Intent, a tool that lets software developers coordinate many AI agents at once. He argues that chat threads stop working when agents manage other agents, because people can no longer see what each agent plans or has done. He describes the views his team built instead.

• Agents can draw architecture maps, flowcharts and state diagrams in shared notes, so a person sees the plan before the agent spends effort on the work.
• Agents place before-and-after screenshots of interface changes side by side, so a person can judge the result without reading code.
• A product's design system can stay open as a note that both people and agents read, so the agents' interface work matches the same reference.
• Chat remains the place for starting, moving along and redirecting work.

A team running several AI agents could ask each one to show its plan as a diagram and its interface changes as paired screenshots before code review. This is an inference and is not the author's claim. The piece is a vendor describing its own product.

Derived by Working Surface from the article; more in the Playbook. Source line: Agents can take before and after screenshots of their UI changes and place them side by side in a note letting you judge results without reading any code.

6 October 2026: as AI agents take on more of the work, teams are writing down expert judgement for agents, keeping juniors next to reviewers, and building views that let a person check agent output.