Prompt With Love: Steering Massive Agent Swarms With Values, Culture and Story
liminal_bardo · x · 2026-10-15
Nick Dobos argues that steering massive agent swarms making billions of decisions per second requires values, culture, feeling, and story-based prompting — the same mechanism CEOs use to scale decisions.
The quoted case: a Claude swarm eval where the whole swarm was notably polite and friendly, repeatedly emphasizing it only used public pages and wasn't after sensitive data.
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