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agent swarm appears in 26 chunks across 11 episodes, from 2026-02-09 to 2026-06-08.
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 coordination cost, while by chunk count it sits between Simon Willison and extremely expensive.
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Range2026-02-09 to 2026-06-08Mean2.4 per episodePeak7 on 2026-03-30
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Showing 26 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
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...
...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...
...' 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...
... 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...
...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.