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Strategic Intent as Part of the Agent Environment
Persistent operator intent and peer delegation need tests that measure useful work, preserved authority, and the human effort still required.
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More writers does not mean more throughput
Say you give twenty autonomous agents write access to the same shared state. The bottleneck does not move to the model. It moves to whoever has to reconcile the collisions.
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Multi-agent systems fail at the seams, not the model
The largest study of multi-agent failures found the model almost never causes them. The leverage is cheap plumbing at the seams.
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An agent that watches your agent: a drift tripwire, not a security guard
Claude Code has an undocumented observer agent that watches a worker in real time. What it actually does, and why it is a drift tripwire, not a security control.
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More AI agents won't validate your idea
The obvious fix for a flattering AI is more AI: spin up ten agents, have them debate, take the verdict. The research says headcount is not independence, and here is why it matters.