'Swarm riders': the new skill of commanding agent swarms, 1000x productive token spend
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-11
matthuang coins 'swarm riders' — a new class of people who consistently command large swarms of agents productively. AI use is power-law distributed even among AI natives; these riders' productive token spend is 1000x-10000x median software engineers and 100x top-5% Claude Code users. A new managerial skill, analogous to managing large human organizations but wholly different and more technical.
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