2026
- Can You Trust a Swarm's Reasoning?
TL;DR: When a collective of agents coordinates internally and a deployment surfaces only its final broadcast to you (a design I am positing to make the trust question concrete, not something the …
- When Your Benchmark Runs for 88 Hours
TL;DR: On the Dwarkesh podcast, Noam Brown of OpenAI described a system of roughly 10,000 agents that spent 130 billion tokens over 88 hours on a single problem. This is his account, not independently …
- What If We Didn't Teach Agents to Work Like Us?
TL;DR: In Brown’s account on a recent podcast (his description of OpenAI’s system, not independently confirmed), a collective of agents given a bare message-another-agent primitive works out …
- When the Model Becomes an Org
TL;DR: In September 2026, Noam Brown of OpenAI said on a podcast (not independently confirmed) that a system of roughly 10,000 agents spent 130 billion tokens over 88 hours on one of the Millennium …
- Weekly Review — July 13-19, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts, one quiet theme: the structure you don’t design still gets drawn. “Laws & Disorder” opens with Conway’s Law — your architecture mirrors your org chart, so shape the teams first, …
- From Robot Soccer to the Agentic World Cup: Why Games Move AI Forward
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Twenty years ago, a year-long university project group I was part of built a team of soccer-playing cube robots …