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AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain
AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer
TL;DRRunning multiple AI agents together wastes tokens without improving output quality.
Why it matters: Challenges the hype around agent swarms; suggests scaling AI horizontally may be inefficient compared to better single-agent design.
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work. He calls this the "coordination tax" and points to a…
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