The Dot and the Swarm
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Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots (along with other “clawlikes”) exemplify personal AI agents that connect to users’ accounts and proactively handle tasks, reducing the amount of planning and context people must provide. OpenAI’s swarm reportedly solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize problem using AI alone in 88 hours with about 2.7 million messages. The author concludes that organizing agent work is now largely handled by better models rather than elaborate human management design, though alignment and safety issues still arise.
