Rebuttal: A Single Agent Would Need ~a Year to Generate the Tokens for the Proof
ChaseBrowe32432 · x · 2026-09-18
In the debate over the agent swarm's contribution, the author calls the claim that the swarm contributed only 10% "plainly false."
His simplest reason: even if a single sequential agent were 100x more efficient than the swarm (which it isn't), it would still take roughly a year to generate the tokens necessary to come up with the proof. Without the swarm, the proof wouldn't exist.
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