Lessons from Building a 100+ Agent Swarm in Web3

I turned four LinkedIn posts into a long-form article. It hit the front page of Hacker Noon this morning.

The question I always get: “Why do you need 100 agents?”

Nobody asks why a company has 100 specialized roles. You don’t hire them all on day one. You start with one person doing everything. As the work grows, you split responsibilities. Each role exists because the job got too big for the last one.

Same with agents. Not designed top-down. Accumulated one at a time, each solving a problem the previous setup couldn’t.

I’ve been writing about this here — context rot, DRYP, skills vs. agents. The article is the full synthesis.

Read the full article on Hacker Noon

What’s the smallest task you split off to a separate tool or process?

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