Agent swarms have the potential to drive yet another leap in output from AI. The impact will be a clear separation between teams that adopt this pattern of work and those that don’t.
The progression has roughly been: chat gave us quick turn AI responses that let us work a bit faster, but we were still rate limited by our interactions; then agents that can go off and complete entire tasks for us, accelerating hours or days of work into minutes; to now swarms of agents that are goal seeking and will find any route to the successful completion of a project, where there’s no inherent limit to the productivity gains.
We can imagine a future where, for any task in which value can be created within a self-contained digital environment, swarms will be able to complete the work faster than any other approach.
Essentially any area where value creation is currently bound by the amount of research you can do, the amount of decisions made with a set of software tools, the amount of data processed or consumed, and the amount of code (or code adjacent) that can be generated.
This means swarms will play a big role in game development, coding, trading, life sciences research, IT automation, cyber, math breakthroughs, animation, and plenty of other areas of work that have these characteristics.
There’s a lot of opportunity to build the harnesses, applied AI products, and infrastructure for how these agents operate. And most importantly there’s a ton of opportunity for those that can wire up work in this way. It’s going to be an entire new field of FDE work available.
Left is Fable 5.2 in 1 hour iterating in blender, right is bird I did a few months ago that had 12 hours of iterations in blender when MCP first released.. crazy how it is these models are getting quite good!
@_samirism question, do you recommend cycling dots regularly? Is there a good reason to keep the same dot for an extended period of time, or good reason not to?
Gave my dot the ruleset for the "Chief of Staff" agent template OpenAI provided and wow! Very proactive, prepping for meetings before I even have a chance to view the invites, love it
Just want to say, it is incredibly reassuring that this team exists and is being built out further. The consulting industry is changing so rapidly, not only at the major firms but mid-small sized as well. As someone who uses all of the major platforms/harnesses I really think ChatGPT is best set up to succeed for this user group.