alt Hacker NewsIsn't this some evidence that LLM swarms are a bad idea relative to more structured approaches?
If YC has that 2 person teams tend to be more nimble than 50 person founding teams, why would agent swarms be different?
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jedbrooke • today at 5:34 AM
I never understood swarms too especially since they all share the same “brain” anyway if they’re using the same model. I suppose there’s throughput advantage from running multiple instances of the llm in parallel, so maybe it’s more of a win on wall clock time and horizontal scaling rather than pure intelligence.
Some interesting analysis here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6cb7qd3RSkgnviCpf/swarm-scal...
I think the advantage is strongest in highly parallelizable problems (e.g. trying 1,000 different approaches to solving a math problem).