Scaling agent swarms N-fold could yield N^λ speedup for N^(1−λ) compute
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-09-22
- Continuing his agent swarm experiments, the author notes that growing swarm size by a factor of N could theoretically yield about N^λ speedup at the cost of N^(1−λ) times as much compute.
- Swarms may also offer higher capability plateaus when scaling both chain-of-thought and agent count, though this remains less proven.
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