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Leverage agent swarms to build custom infra with tiny teams
◆ 65RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
This proves that AI agents allow two-person teams to tackle complex systems engineering typically reserved for massive departments. You can now realistically build custom, high-performance alternatives to expensive SaaS components like DynamoDB.
Takeaways
- Agent swarms enable tiny teams to ship complex, low-level Rust infrastructure.
- The "buy vs. build" math has shifted toward custom, agent-assisted systems.
- Human engineers remain necessary for the operational oversight of agent-generated code.
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Perplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it.
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