Kimi's CEO Zhilin Yang: "everyone's trying to build one smarter agent many agent hits a wall fast, so instead of making it smarter we just made more - one boss, a thousand workers." in a 39-minute talk he explains why one agent won't get you to real work. agent swarms + long context + RL on every sub-agent - that's the fix. bookmark this ↓
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Stop prompting, start looping: the Boris Cherny method

Everyone is optimizing their prompts. Boris Cherny threw the whole idea out. He built Claude Code. He runs the team. And he uses the tool in a way that looks nothing like how most people use it. No

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the "one boss, a thousand workers" framing is perfect. single agent architecture is like trying to hire one person who's amazing at everything instead of building an actual team

Jul 18, 2026 · 7:44 AM UTC
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