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2026-03-25 08:04
Build agents like Unix pipelines, not org charts
The most common advice for multi-agent systems: start with a team. CEO agent, CTO agent, sales agent, marketing agent. Looks great in diagrams.
Here's why it usually fails, and a better mental model.
The Org Chart Problem
When you build a "team" first, you end up with agents that have overlapping responsibilities, unclear handoffs, and no good answer to: "who actually does this?"
The...