4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
causal claim

An agent swarm with largely useless exploration wastes tokens.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“you're just burning tokens versus in this setup maybe not so much i'm not sure i mean maybe it's also the case”
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