normative claim
A true agent swarm should consist of agents acting independently rather than being centrally coordinated.
swyx · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“this is a bottleneck if there's one main guy uh it's coordinating all the sub guys then they have to like you know gather again and then re-coordinate that's slow that's that's crappy uh what a true swarm should be is everyone is just their own person right”1:05:21Report a misattribution
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