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points by mywittyname 1 day ago | 0 comments

So the point I was trying to make is that I'm maybe in the 25th percentile of developers and am using multiple agents for a task, and Anthropic researchers are at the 99th percentile and are using thousands of agents per task.

So the median developer is probably using 5-20 agents at a time for a task. I'm not sure if that crosses the threshold of being a "fleet of agents".

[–] Wheen 1 day ago

I'm curious to see your source for these numbers. Your flow sounds closer to a 99th percentile one than a 25th. I find it hard to believe that a median developer is using 5-20 agents at a time.

[–] NichoPaolucci 1 day ago

Yeah... N=2-3 here but my team prefers having 1 main agent and maybe a couple more finely tuned ones for review / analysis / security... I generally have 2-3 chats going on different tasks but more than that and I lose the plot.

[–] mistrial9 1 day ago

the way I read this passage - author claims to be not a particularly skilled or fast-paced practitioner, and yet it is true that author is using agents like this. Next, very advanced researchers -- in the heart of the AI Frontier industry -- are using many more agents with much larger actions.

The "median developer" refers to the particularly skilled or fast-paced, not that there are continuous numbers of every practitioner using N-agents