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The question to explore

Invite a few helpers

When does more help save time?

About 10 minutes / Suggested pace / No account needed

Parallel work
Elapsed time
Cost
Dependency

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What this activity helps you do

Compare four workers with five. Here, the fifth adds coordination cost without removing a batch. Before adding AI helpers, ask which tasks can actually happen at the same time.

Local teaching illustration / No AI model call

Start with one worker and read the estimated time and cost.
Move Workers to 4, then 5. Compare time and cost; the extra worker does not remove a task batch in this case.
Try 8 workers. Explain why the calculated speedup is less than eightfold and why total cost has increased.

1 worker: 86 time units, 86 cost units. These are invented teaching units.

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The idea

Independent jobs can overlap. Jobs that depend on an unfinished decision still have to wait. More helpers do not remove those dependencies.

This calculation assumes eight jobs taking ten units each, six units that cannot overlap, and two extra coordination units per additional worker. These are made-up units, not measured AI performance. Finishing sooner and doing less total work are different goals.

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What changed?

Faster completion and less total effort are different outcomes.

Try explaining it.

Could two helpers write consecutive chapters independently if chapter two depends on an unresolved choice in chapter one?

Open a possible explanation

They could explore alternatives, but a consistent final version needs that choice to be settled or shared. Adding workers does not remove the dependency.

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