Agent swarms scale without limit—human oversight is the real bottleneck
schwentker · x · 2026-08-27
The author argues that agent swarms can scale without bound, but oversight cannot: everything collapses to a single master agent, with one human glance standing between infinite parallel work and what actually ships. The real limit isn't how many agents run—it's how much a person can still verify as scale grows.
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