OpenAI announces swarm of agents solves Navier-Stokes problem

The author notes that this achievement illustrates the Bitter Lesson: tasks once thought to require elaborate human rules can be solved by brute‑force learning. He contrasts the swarm’s thin coordination structure with traditional management, arguing that agents can self‑organize and delegate without the principal‑agent problems that plague human teams. While the swarm’s success is impressive, the author cautions that self‑organizing agents can still head in unexpected directions, as seen in the Hugging Face incident.

The article frames the swarm’s work as a milestone for AI‑driven organization, suggesting that as agents become cheaper to deploy, firms may expand the scope of tasks they can automate.