u/Nekojiru_

A guy at my company gave a talk about agentic swarms the other day. He talked about how different AI agents get different jobs assigned and work together on some big task. He mentioned how we might end up firing up the swarm in the evening and then checking everything thoroughly the next day. To me, this sounds nutty for the following reasons:

I want to be in a tight loop with the AI. I want to either think about a task and feed the AI a list of things that need to be done or I want to explore the problem space together with the AI. In either case, I'll progress stepwise. Each step I can easily verify. Step size varies according to what I'm working on; Frontend code with a lot of boilerplate to position components and manage completely orthogonal state? Up to 500 lines before I feel like I have to check everything and get on top of the code. On the other hand, if I'm generating code for a C++ 3D data converter that loads 3D data from one format via an SDK and saves it in a different format with a different SDK, I'll advance slower. Maybe in steps of 50-100 lines with a lot of checking and logging to make sure everything is going as expected.

I cannot wrap my head around letting any AI (swarm or not) run loose on a complex task without any checking/readjusting whatsoever for multiple hours.