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Agent swarms and the new model economics
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Experiments with agent swarms demonstrated the potential for cooperative task execution at larger scales and complexities. A flagship project involved a swarm successfully building a web browser from scratch, serving as a proof of concept despite not achieving polished software.
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- Praise: The rapid increase from 1,000 commits per hour to 1,000 commits per second shows a major leap in swarm efficiency, hinting at a new era for collaborative AI models.
- Praise: There's excitement around the innovative experiments happening, even if they aren't perfect yet — it's all part of the journey towards more capable coding agents.
- Concern: Concerns about LLM memorization of training sets raise questions about the true originality of these models — are we just recycling existing code?
- Concern: The complexity of building a new version control system just to support the swarms seems excessive, leading some to wonder if this is over-engineering.