Re:Agent swarms and the new model economics
by cookiengineer on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:04AM
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This so much!
For my current setup, the most efficient way is to use larger models for coordination, but a heretic'ed qwen 30B model for the implementations. If you build your agentic environment around specifications and test coverage tied to symbols, you can do a lot of parallelization of agent work.
If you then separate the filesystem and tool read/write access by agent roles and policies (e.g. coder not allowed to modify unit tests, tester not allowed to modify code files) then you can force them to use a centralized per symbol/per contract specification tool.
And then you can just let agents discuss issues, where the messaging threads are also tied to the same symbols.
For my current setup, the most efficient way is to use larger models for coordination, but a heretic'ed qwen 30B model for the implementations. If you build your agentic environment around specifications and test coverage tied to symbols, you can do a lot of parallelization of agent work.
If you then separate the filesystem and tool read/write access by agent roles and policies (e.g. coder not allowed to modify unit tests, tester not allowed to modify code files) then you can force them to use a centralized per symbol/per contract specification tool.
And then you can just let agents discuss issues, where the messaging threads are also tied to the same symbols.
[1] Exocomp, highly experimental: https://github.com/cookiengineer/exocomp