Topics / AI agent coordination designAttributed viewpoint
Agents require less human-designed coordination than expected
Ethan Mollick initially believed that organizing AI agents effectively would require careful, time-intensive human design—akin to building a company—but later revised this view after observing how agents self-organize.
Behind the viewpoint
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The Dot and the Swarm
Original excerpt
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.
Context
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.