Anyone Can Spawn 300 Agents. Nobody Can Merge Their Output.
Description and use
<p>Last week a reel crossed my feed: a dashboard with some 300 AI agents, each in its own window, all working at once. The creator called it a fleet. It looked like the future, and I've been thinking about it ever since — because I believe the demo showed me the wrong half.</p> <p>The industry is optimizing for the spawn. Bot fleets, group chats full of agents, "just spin up another one." Every demo stages the same moment: <em>look how many we can run in parallel.</em> The implied thesis is seductive — agent power equals agent count.</p> <p>I'm betting against it. Spawning is the easy 10%. The
Problem
<p>Last week a reel crossed my feed: a dashboard with some 300 AI agents, each in its own window, all working at once. The creator called it a fleet. It looked like the future, and I've been thinking about it ever since — because I believe the demo showed me the wrong half.</p> <p>The industry is optimizing for the spawn. Bot fleets, group chats full of agents, "just spin up another one." Every demo stages the same moment: <em>look how many we can run in parallel.</em> The implied thesis is seductive — agent power equals agent count.</p> <p>I'm betting against it. Spawning is the easy 10%. The
Outcome
<p>Last week a reel crossed my feed: a dashboard with some 300 AI agents, each in its own window, all working at once. The creator called it a fleet. It looked like the future, and I've been thinking about it ever since — because I believe the demo showed me the wrong half.</p> <p>The industry is optimizing for the spawn. Bot fleets, group chats full of agents, "just spin up another one." Every demo stages the same moment: <em>look how many we can run in parallel.</em> The implied thesis is seductive — agent power equals agent count.</p> <p>I'm betting against it. Spawning is the easy 10%. The
Evidence
Anyone Can Spawn 300 Agents. Nobody Can Merge Their Output.
- Record date: 2026-10-01T14:40:46.595Z