'You Don't Count Your Threads': a nuanced take on agent autonomy and swarms
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-22
An essay titled 'You Don't Count Your Threads' articulates a subtle nuance about agent autonomy the author long struggled to express: thread/instance counts are the wrong mental model for reasoning about autonomous agent swarms. It grapples with whether swarms of autonomous agents will end up doing all the work.
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