A genius before used to be limited by their ability to execute.
... unleashes the power of their insight to an extraordinary degree. In a world of agent swarms, the limiting factor is your judgment and intelligence.
Topic: agent swarm
29 chunks · 13 episodes
1.9x burst in 2026 Q1
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- agent swarm appears in 29 chunks across 13 episodes, from 2026-02-09 to 2026-09-21.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/30/26 (2026-03-30), with 7 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with opportunity cost, huge amount, and limiting factor, while by chunk count it sits between Gemini and goodhart law.
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20 minutes of well-orchestrated agent swarms is equivalent to a day of an amazing team
20 minutes of well-orchestrated agent swarms is equivalent to a day of an amazing team
When you get 1000x more productive you don't relax, you do more!
...ut leisure in "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren". Everyone who does agent swarms leans towards empowerment to the point of mania. This is due to the extreme opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of a minute is now insane. Which ...
When I was describing the mania that comes from agent swarms, someone asked me, "...
When I was describing the mania that comes from agent swarms, someone asked me, "... Are you OK?" None of the people coding with agent swarms are "OK!" We're all experiencing a collective, overwhelming, addict...
To successfully control a complex system you must have more internal complexity in your control model.
...e ladder of adult development. Meta-cognition is necessary to effectively drive agent swarms.
When you have abundant cognitive labor at your fingertips, it's overwhelming.
...is orders of magnitude higher than before. Every second you aren't feeding your agent swarm is huge amounts of value you aren't creating. You also know that others who are doing it will lap you. The infinite possibility creates a red queen r...
Vibe coding addiction is a real thing.
...' of agentic AI coders, and they're starting to report trouble sleeping because agent swarms are 'like a vampire.' 'A lot of people who are in 'multiple agents mode,' they're napping during the day... It just really is draining.' 'This thing...
Reality can only go so fast.
... could go way faster. If you have a digital twin environment, you can allow the agent swarm to go as fast as it can in "fast time", to discover the good ideas to then ship back to "slow time" to execute in the real world. Reminds me of the o...
Agents scurrying over your data when you aren't looking are like cockroaches.
...roaches it's much less disgusting. That's one reason ChatGPT can't do proactive agent swarms on your data… it would be too icky. But a system that users fully own could.