"Verification Sharding": Distributing Output Validation Across Massive Agent Swarms
curious_vii · x · 2026-08-05
The author proposes an AI agent architecture concept called "Verification Sharding".
Instead of relying on a single critic agent in a loop, the approach involves:
- Fan-out: Spinning up thousands of parallel agent threads to simulate diverse perspectives.
- Formal verification: Rigorously verifying the logic and correctness of outputs.
- Incremental verification payment: Paying a long tail of "experts"—both human and digitally mediated sensor networks—for incremental feedback and validation.
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