Alex argues that GrokBot's chat interface, which lets you message individual agents, won't scale. As agent fleets grow to millions, humans won't be able to manage them one-by-one. The future requires agents managing agents, not people chatting with bots.
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Hot take. People love the hot takes. I don't think this is actually the interface of the future. So what's perhaps most interesting about GrokBot is it presents like a messaging app, like WhatsApp or iMessage, where you have a pane of the various agents that are in your fleet, and you can have conversations with them, and they can message each other. And there's a computer use assistant angle. But I don't think that's how it scales. That's completely unscalable. If agent-based scaling, if scaling the size of your fleet becomes one of the most essential scaling laws, like inference time scaling has ended up being in the era of reasoning-based models, we're not going to want to ask individuals or even enterprises to manage millions of agents. That's completely unergonomic. We're going to want agents managing other agents, in which case the exercise of trying to graft a human organisation or like the Slack or chat-based interface for humans managing other humans is not going to extend. We'll look at this like vaudeville, the vaudeville era of agents, and say this was a naive attempt to graft human organisational structures onto humans managing agents. The only better manager for agents is other agents, and this doesn't seem to fully internalize that lesson.
