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In a company of 10,000 people, employees more often pursue territorial interests, team headcount and resources, personal projects, or promotion rather than solely the company's interests.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“If you have like a massive company with 10,000 people,”
“you see a lot more instances where people are territorial or like just care about getting a lot of headcount for their project or their team or like, you know, building their fiefdoms, getting a lot of resources so that they can publish cool work or whatever and get promoted.”Play from 17:34Report a misattribution
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