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Cognition publishes Don't Build Multi-Agents

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Published Don't Build Multi-Agents — set out two principles: share the full agent trace, and avoid parallel subagents

Why it matters

A direct counterargument to the spread of multi-agent systems. Reaches the opposite conclusion from the next entry, one day apart

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Officialcognition.comhttps://cognition.com/blog/dont-build-multi-agents

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