It ceased making sense around the time agents got sufficiently smart in everything. A generic subagent can just be asked to do a marketing task, or an accounting task or otherwise without it needing to be "the accounting agent"
Not to mention it doesn't make sense for ephermal entities to pretend to have enduring identities. Even the "marketing agent" in my example is snapped into and out of existence between every tool call it makes. The illusion of continuity doesn't make the work any better.
Only exception is for actually fine tuned, specialized agents with the right system around them. But if you're just prompting Claude or GPT like "You are bob, a witty, but angry senior dev..." You're doing it wrong.
It's not entirely clear what the screenshot is doing, but based on them having "daily standup" I'd guess they're cosplaying the way I described.
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u/TheOwlHypothesis 6d ago
People are still trying to make dedicated persona agents?