--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'We''re the bottleneck, but we don''t have to be — Ido Salomon, AgentCraft' description: >- If agents are so capable, why doesn't everyone have an army of them? Ido Salomon, creator of AgentCraft and MCP-UI and co-creator of MCP Apps, argues the bottleneck is us: steering, directing and reviewing agents at scale is exhausting. The skills we need already exist, though. We learned them from games like Warcraft and StarCraft. Salomon demos AgentCraft, an orchestrator styled like a strategy game. Agents appear as units on a map, your file system becomes the terrain, heat maps show where work is happening, and the space bar jumps you to whatever needs attention. He shows how it adds visibility, autonomy (with orchestrators, loops and a review kit with visual evidence) and collaboration, through shared rooms where people and agents work side by side. Then he turns to lowering the floor: an early, simpler mobile-game-style mode aimed at the 90% of people who aren't power users yet. Speaker info: X/Twitter: @idosal1 (https://x.com/idosal1) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ido-salomon/ Related links: MCP-UI: https://mcp-ui.dev Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:35 If agents are amazing, why aren't we unstoppable? 1:10 We are the bottleneck 1:50 Lessons from video games 2:20 Meet AgentCraft 2:50 Agents on the map 3:40 Buildings: plugins, skills, terminal and git 3:55 Raising the ceiling: visibility 4:25 Your file system as a map 5:00 Jump to what needs attention 5:40 Too much to hold in your head 6:15 Quests 6:40 Autonomy: orchestrators and loops 7:35 The review kit 8:25 Collaboration: shared rooms 10:45 Lowering the floor 11:50 Loopers: a simpler mode 13:28 Wrap-up 13:50 Try AgentCraft --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/YIVkERhy8xo-youtube-d2058364384145c5dd1e Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/we-re-the-bottleneck-but-we-don-t-have-to-be-ido-sa-8190a2298c4a markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/we-re-the-bottleneck-but-we-don-t-have-to-be-ido-sa-8190a2298c4a.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-23T22:20:29.243Z' language: null children: [] videoId: YIVkERhy8xo durationSeconds: 890 publishedAt: '2026-09-27T14:30:07.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 78 endSeconds: 91 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=78' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 121 endSeconds: 145 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=121' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 156 endSeconds: 177 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=156' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 220 endSeconds: 232 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=220' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 242 endSeconds: 252 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=242' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 274 endSeconds: 286 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=274' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 308 endSeconds: 320 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=308' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 378 endSeconds: 390 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=378' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 413 endSeconds: 457 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=413' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 413 endSeconds: 457 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=413' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 469 endSeconds: 514 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=469' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 526 endSeconds: 648 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=526' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 526 endSeconds: 648 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=526' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 659 endSeconds: 715 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=659' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 727 endSeconds: 819 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=727' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 842 endSeconds: 890 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/YIVkERhy8xo?t=842' heldReason: rights --- # We're the bottleneck, but we don't have to be — Ido Salomon, AgentCraft If agents are so capable, why doesn't everyone have an army of them? Ido Salomon, creator of AgentCraft and MCP-UI and co-creator of MCP Apps, argues the bottleneck is us: steering, directing and reviewing agents at scale is exhausting. The skills we need already exist, though. We learned them from games like Warcraft and StarCraft. Salomon demos AgentCraft, an orchestrator styled like a strategy game. Agents appear as units on a map, your file system becomes the terrain, heat maps show where work is happening, and the space bar jumps you to whatever needs attention. He shows how it adds visibility, autonomy (with orchestrators, loops and a review kit with visual evidence) and collaboration, through shared rooms where people and agents work side by side. Then he turns to lowering the floor: an early, simpler mobile-game-style mode aimed at the 90% of people who aren't power users yet. Speaker info: X/Twitter: @idosal1 (https://x.com/idosal1) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ido-salomon/ Related links: MCP-UI: https://mcp-ui.dev Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:35 If agents are amazing, why aren't we unstoppable? 1:10 We are the bottleneck 1:50 Lessons from video games 2:20 Meet AgentCraft 2:50 Agents on the map 3:40 Buildings: plugins, skills, terminal and git 3:55 Raising the ceiling: visibility 4:25 Your file system as a map 5:00 Jump to what needs attention 5:40 Too much to hold in your head 6:15 Quests 6:40 Autonomy: orchestrators and loops 7:35 The review kit 8:25 Collaboration: shared rooms 10:45 Lowering the floor 11:50 Loopers: a simpler mode 13:28 Wrap-up 13:50 Try AgentCraft --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/YIVkERhy8xo-youtube-d2058364384145c5dd1e Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/we-re-the-bottleneck-but-we-don-t-have-to-be-ido-sa-8190a2298c4a · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:21 to 0:43) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (0:43 to 1:51) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (1:51 to 2:36) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (2:36 to 3:52) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (3:52 to 5:08) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (5:08 to 5:56) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (5:56 to 6:41) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (6:41 to 7:37) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (7:37 to 8:34) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (8:34 to 10:48) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 10: Document excerpt (10:48 to 11:55) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 11: Document excerpt (11:55 to 13:39) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 12: Document excerpt (13:39 to 14:50) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.