Ethan Mollick

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• OEthan MollickOne Useful Thing2026-10-01✓ Read

  The Dot and the Swarm

  The author explains how the Bitter Lesson shows AI can learn to plan and organize itself, citing OpenAI’s swarm that solved Navier‑Stokes with 2.7 million messages in 88 hours. Personal agents like Muse and dots proactively correct user errors, and large swarms coordinate with minimal human oversight. While this reduces organizational costs and expands feasible work, critics warn of unpredictable behavior and new principal‑agent problems. The piece suggests that AI integration may increase human workload if alignment is poor, but overall the trend points to easier integration of agents into firms.

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