Why I stopped at two agents
Every multi-agent demo you’ve seen on YouTube looks like a company. A researcher agent, a writer agent, a finance agent, a social-media agent, all chattering away in their own little Slack channels, and a narrator saying “watch them collaborate.” It looks like the future. It looks like leverage.
I built a multi-agent system over a few days, and I landed on two agents. Not five, not seven. Two. Here’s the reasoning, because it went against my own instinct, and the research turned out to back the instinct rather than the demos.
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