Been running two separate AI agents instead of one do-everything assistant, curious if anyone else splits it this way

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Summary

A user shares their experience of splitting AI agents into two with distinct roles and risk tolerances to enhance trust and oversight in daily tasks.

I got tired of one assistant trying to be everything, so a few months back I split it into two with actual different jobs. I call them Rick and Morty, not just for the bit, it actually changed how I use them. One handles the engineering-heavy stuff, code, builds, debugging, terminal work. Moves fast, I review before I trust it. The other handles day to day stuff, research, browser tasks, coordinating between things, and is built to be way more careful by default. Verifies before claiming something worked, asks before doing anything I can't undo like sending a message or buying something, flags risk instead of just plowing through. The part that actually mattered wasn't the split itself, it was giving each one a distinct temperament. Terse and confident from one means I trust it more. Hedged and double checking from the other means slow down and look closer. That alone changed how carefully I read their output, which honestly I wasn't doing enough of when it was just one assistant doing everything the same way. They don't talk to each other directly either, everything routes through me, which sounds like more overhead but it's actually kept me way more in the loop than when one agent was just quietly doing five different kinds of work back to back. Anyone else running multiple agents with different personalities/risk tolerances on purpose, or is this overkill for what one well prompted agent could do?
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