Most multi-agent setups I see aren’t actually better. They’re just more complicated ways to fail.
People keep adding agents before asking the only question that matters: does this work even split cleanly?
If it doesn’t, you’re not scaling intelligence. You’re scaling coordination debt.
@DegenInvestor69 been there
spent more time trying to make them talk to each other than the actual task took
at some point you realize the hard part isn’t the agents, it’s the glue
@tenobrus this is where I’m at too
once they start pinging each other and forming some kind of hierarchy, you stop feeling like you’re “using tools”
and start feeling like you’re managing a weird little remote team that never logs off
@rcmisk yeah this is too real
at some point you’re not prompting anymore
you’re just project-managing a bunch of agents that refuse to talk to each other properly
@pbteja1998 man I’ve felt this
agents do the work but I’m still the one who has to keep track of what each of them was doing
shared memory would’ve saved me a few late nights already
The biggest change after running a few agents isn’t productivity.
It’s that I now worry about them at night.
They don’t stop, so it’s hard for me to stop either.
@rileybrown Real.
I start worrying at night about what the agents are doing and whether they messed something up.
They don’t stop, so I don’t either. Easy to end up staying up all night.
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The “no real-world signal” argument became outdated the moment copilots and chat agents shipped.
Every bug report is an eval.
Every retry is RL.
Every weird user workflow is grounding data.
AI labs aren’t isolated from the economy anymore — they’re already plugged into it.
I don't think automation of AI R&D will rapidly lead to domain-general super-intelligence.
I think this will be true even if AIs can do *literally everything* a human AI researcher does today.
Even after the full automation of AI R&D, further capabilities progress will only happen through
(1) widespread deployment of AI throughout the economy, accompanied by data collection; and/or
(2) the wholesale recreation of much of the economy by AI labs.
Without access to the real-world signal provided by either of the above, I think that the only thing produced by automated AI researchers would be a "Goodhart Singularity".
If I'm right, this is obviously good news. I make the case for this in a new piece on my substack