The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
I generally think I have done a good job anticipating the direction and pace of AI over the few years I have been writing this Substack, but I think I recently got something fairly large wrong. In the last year I have been posting about how I suspected that humans would have to approach working with agents as a manager, deciding how to delegate work to agents and specifying how those agents should be organized. I thought that getting agents to work effectively as a group would take careful construction, akin to building a company, and that this would take time to figure out.
Nope.
Dots and Muse
Swarms
A Not-Entirely-Bitter Lesson
Also, a reminder that I have a new book, Co-Existence, coming out October 20, and, if you are interested in reading or listening to it (I read the audiobook, a little too fast), you may want to pre-order, which both helps me as an author and gives you access to a very cool pre-order bonus.
