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Daily A.I. Brief · September 17th
From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Theo here. September 17th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from The Decoder. AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer. OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work. He calls this the "coordination tax" and points to a project where 1,393…
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