Anthropic's signature opener. The naive answer (one server pushes to N clients) is bottlenecked by the source uplink and scales linearly. The answer interviewers reward turns receivers into senders so the swarm's capacity grows with its size. Here is that reasoning.
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Anthropic's signature opener. The naive answer (one server pushes to N clients) is bottlenecked by the source uplink and scales linearly. The answer interviewers reward turns receivers into senders so the swarm's capacity grows with its size. Here is that reasoning.
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