Chat with AI could feel outdated in 1-2 years as agent swarms push traffic 1,000x
dumpshoot · reddit · 2026-10-10
The poster predicts that as AI agents run in the background, spawn other agents, and operate in swarms, token usage could reach 1,000x today's one-prompt-at-a-time chat.
Elon Musk has similarly suggested agent traffic could surpass all human internet traffic by 1,000x. If even close, compute won't be the only bottleneck — network bandwidth becomes a major constraint too, and chatting with AI may feel outdated within 1-2 years.
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