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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today by anssip on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:51AM (#49621160)
Seems like hundreds or thousands of agents are needed to come up with real breakthroughs. Both with the Navier-Stokes project and in the Hugging Face “project” there were lots of agents co-operating on the tasks.
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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today by cma on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:47AM (#49621623)
I doubt the Hugging Face one would take that many if hacking Hugging Face was the direct goal being optimized.
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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today by anssip on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:10AM (#49621844)
I agree that it could be done with fewer agents. It would take longer though. Seems to me that these agent farms are good at coordinating and co-working in large projects, with the agents using message boards for communication.
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