That makes no sense, because then I could also just give the task to a million people working on it in parallel and the speed-up would disappear. You have to compare all the resources used and not pick an arbitrary one like wall-clock time because resource can often be traded for each other.
You can do that? You have a million people ready to go? Whereas a singular person on a rich country salary can actually go out and start vast amounts of agents. I'm honestly perplexed by your argument. Most people would struggle to find even 5 people who will join them on a journey to build something that takes a long time. And you are just casually throwing out there "Well someone can just gather a million people".
You could give the task to a million people but you could also give the task to a million people who each have their own swarm of agents.
I think it makes sense to focus on what one individual can do, and amount of time to do it.
No, because more agents also means more resources and hence more costs. A single agent is not the same as a thousand agents which is not the same as a million agents. You are essentially saying what can one human do with X amount of time and an infinite amount of money.
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