"10,000 concurrent agents on an impossible task, competitor publishing soon — what could go wrong"

w_hgm · x · 2026-09-09

benjaminvrbk posts a sardonic checklist of how frontier labs operate: take a highly intelligent model trained 3 days ago, spin up 10,000 concurrent collaborating agents, hand them a potentially impossible task, and tell them to finish ASAP because a competitor is about to publish. The punchline — "what could possibly go wrong" — skewers the recklessness of race-driven autonomous agent development.

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