Meta's chief AI officer: a swarm of agents can outperform 100 engineers
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-12
Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, speaking with YC CEO Garry Tan at Y Combinator Startup School, said Meta has seen internally that with the right agentic loop plus proper evaluation systems and metrics for agents to optimize, a swarm of agents can outperform a team of 100 engineers — and do so 'very handily, very easily.' A high-profile endorsement of agent orchestration and eval-driven development.
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