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When many subagents are deployed for a search problem, they produce substantial useless information, which is consciously accepted in that problem framing.
Unidentified speaker · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“i think at some level that's how problems are framed right so like if you have a search problem and you're spanning out a bunch of sub agents to do search there's going to be a lot of useless information right there is one retrieval answer that you're getting and you're spanning off but that is consciously understood right”Play from 1:06:19Report a misattribution
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