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Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?

5•dsrtslnd23•1h ago
Andrej Karpathy posted about the growing gap in how people experience AI:

~75% have barely used LLMs ~20% use them casually ~0.2% use frontier models professionally for math and code ~0.00006% have access to frontier systems internally

He writes:

"And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics."

Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046

Does anyone have an intuition, or even firsthand experience, of how these swarms of thousands of agents actually work?

I'm already struggling to get 2-3 agents to work together reliably. I can't really wrap my head around how you'd coordinate thousands of them, or what benefits you get from scaling to that many.

Comments

cloaky233•1h ago
If you are going down that path, I would suggest going towards a graph of loops where each agent runs in the loop and knows which job to pass this on to next. Agents interchange messages, and each particular node is a loop in itself. So swarm can work like that, and you can design it to be more parallel, but I would say this is a 10x better method than just leaving 10 different chaotic agents run randomly.

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