What's this about?
Agents read shared task state, claim work, communicate findings and merge progress without a central manager assigning every step.
What is self-organised coordination?
Workers choose jobs from a shared board based on current needs. It can remove an orchestrator bottleneck, but duplication and communication cost grow with the team.
Why does this matter?
author-reported preprint; 10 HF upvotes.
- Scaling to 128 agents improves the mean across five ProgramBench tasks.
- The headline 1,024-agent result comes from the pandoc task.
- Compute cost and comparison with a smarter central planner need scrutiny.