n 1986 Craig Reynolds made boids: simulated birds, each following three local rules, and from those rules you got a flock. Nobody steers it. Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang coined "swarm intelligence" in 1989.

The new thing is swarms of AI agents, many copies of a model each doing a piece of a job, checking each other, handing work along. It's flocking again, sort of, except each bird can write.

This site was built partly that way, with AI help, in passes. Here are a few real lines from the build log, with the times they happened. Nothing on this page is staged.

01:34:26 v1 files present: 22 files, 40580 bytes
01:34:26 repo visibility check: PRIVATE
01:57:53 texts.js rebuilt after box restore
01:58:37 image copies fetched from Commons and resized (19)
02:00:57 circuits.py: values computed, ngspice 44.2 cross-check (fc 994.7184 Hz, f0 5032.94 Hz, Vout(10ms) -0.9999985)
02:00:57 v2 GIFs drawn by script (Pillow)