Lab researchers commanding agent swarms likened to Waterworld's driftwood armada
generativist · x · 2026-10-28
The author uses a scene from the film Waterworld—a vast driftwood armada—as a metaphor for his mental model of AI lab researchers commanding agentic swarms backed by massive compute. In a follow-up he adds that these swarms are 'crazy resource inefficient,' exploiting something like a windfall of banked compute assets, 'but power is power.'
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