AIHacker Noonabout 18 hours ago
Most of Your Agent Tasks Don't Need a Swarm
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Three labs shipped parallel subagents as a default model feature in July 2026. Anthropic reported multi-agent systems outperform single agents by 90.2% on research evals but use 15x more tokens. Cognition published "Don't Build Multi-Agents," citing structural failures when subagents write shared artifacts. The rule: fan out only for read-heavy, independent tasks.
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