Earlier this year, we ran experiments to test the limits of scaling agents to cooperate toward a goal. Our hypothesis was that this would unlock a new tier of task scale and complexity. The flagship project was a long-running swarm building a web browser from scratch. It succeeded as a proof of concept, but fell far short of polished software. That work was deliberately empirical. We started from a blank canvas and hill-climbed toward a stable, effective system. Since then, our goal has been to ...