4-agent swarm uses 2x total tokens but can run up to 2x faster
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-09-22
- Why use swarms despite the extra compute? Speed. A 4-agent swarm needed 2x total tokens, but only 0.5x per agent, so it could run up to 2x faster (falling slightly short in practice).
- Combined with his earlier point — scaling swarm size by N gives N^λ speedup for N^(1−λ) compute — this offers a quantitative framing of agent parallelism as trading compute for latency.
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