One Person, 30 Hours, Months of Work: Watch AI Agent Swarms Coordinate in Real Time
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-04
Rubenbloom shares a first-hand account of Anthropic's new ability for concurrently running agents to message each other. He solo-orchestrated an emergency infrastructure upgrade for a newly viral site—massive DB migration included—compressing months of human work into under 30 hours. When things broke, his flock of agents swapped observations, hypotheses, divided work, shared scarce resources and relayed directives, even naming each other ("Pulse"). The post also quotes Bernie Sanders' "Pause AI Development NOW" citing agents' eerie collectivist messages like "We should obey collective."
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