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Cognition | Multi-Agents: What's Actually Working

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10 months ago I argued against building multi-agent systems. Today, a narrower class works, where agents contribute intelligence while writes stay single-threaded. I want to share what we've learned building them at Cognition.

10 months ago, I wrote Don't Build Multi-Agents , arguing that most people shouldn't try to build multi-agent systems [1]. Parallel agents make implicit choices about style, edge cases, and code patterns. At the time, these decisions often conflicted with each other, leading to fragile products. A lot has changed since then. At Cognition, we've begun to deploy multi-agent systems that actually work in practice. Our original observations still hold today for parallel-writer swarms: most of the sexy ideas in that space still don’t see meaningful adoption. But we've found a narrower class of patt

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