Agent swarms are wildly resource-inefficient, running on windfall compute
generativist · x · 2026-10-28
Following up on his Waterworld metaphor for lab researchers commanding agent swarms, the author argues these swarms are 'crazy resource inefficient,' exploiting something like a windfall of banked compute assets—but 'power is power and all that.'
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