Why multi-agent AI coding tools create coordination problems instead of solving them
Multi-agent swarms promise to automate coding, but they often shift the coordination burden from the system to the engineer. What actually matters is outcome-orientation — describing the result you want and getting back feasibility and cost — not managing which agent does what. The real frontier is multiplayer augmented development where humans collaborate in real-time, not swarms that require orchestration.
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