If You're Compute-Constrained, Don't Burn Agent-Compute on Social Agents
nptacek · x · 2026-11-06
A widely shared take argues that compute-constrained teams should focus agent-compute on solving more obvious problems up and down the stack, rather than running social agents that endlessly talk LSDspeak at each other with no clear benefit — a pragmatic critique of the social-agent hype.
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