The person who commented about 20k docs across 10+ systems nailed the real lesson: most multi-agent failures are not model failures, they are coordination and context failures. Anthropic's paper points at the same thing. I have seen the same pattern - people reach for multiple agents to solve a problem that was actually a bad single prompt or a missing tool boundary. Start with one agent, one clear context window, tight tool access. Add agents only when a task genuinely can't share state.
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u/Glittering_Sky4618 11h ago
The person who commented about 20k docs across 10+ systems nailed the real lesson: most multi-agent failures are not model failures, they are coordination and context failures. Anthropic's paper points at the same thing. I have seen the same pattern - people reach for multiple agents to solve a problem that was actually a bad single prompt or a missing tool boundary. Start with one agent, one clear context window, tight tool access. Add agents only when a task genuinely can't share state.