How Many Agents Do You Use Daily?

"How many agents do you use daily?"

Someone asked me that at a networking event. He had just heard a number from the guy before me, so he asked me the same thing. I said I genuinely don't know the number. It changes.

What I built isn't a pile of agents. It's a platform that runs the work using agents, and spins one up when the work needs one.

Counting them would be like counting how many browser tabs you opened this year.

I think we have to grow out of counting agents and start building platforms.

And a platform is mainly three things.

1. Data. One source of truth, so everything reads and writes in the same place instead of every agent keeping its own half version of reality.

2. Integrations. The MCPs, APIs, and tools that connect it to your accounts, your sites, your projects. Wire one up once and everything downstream can use it.

3. Workflows. The part you change constantly, because the work changes constantly. This is where the actual thinking lives.

Get those three right and agents stop being something you build and maintain. They turn into consumables, spun up for a job and thrown away.

There's more underneath, observability and guardrails especially, but those three carry the weight.

So the honest answer to his question is that I still don't know. Whatever the work needed that day.