The Reality of Multi-Agent Collaboration: Latency and State Consistency

Multiple agents can divide research, coding, and review, but coordination introduces latency, duplicated work, conflicting state, and harder debugging.nnUse multi-agent designs only when the work can be partitioned and the shared state has a clear owner. A single reliable agent is often better than several agents arguing over the same files.

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