Ants in the Machine: What Swarm Intelligence Teaches Us About Routing LLM Agents
Routing is the unglamorous part of agentic AI. Which is exactly why it matters. A company can assemble a neat little digital workforce: one agent plans, one agent searches, one agent codes, one agent critiques, one agent writes the final answer. It looks sophisticated on a diagram. Then production traffic arrives, and the system discovers a more ancient truth: a committee is not useful if every request goes through the wrong people in the wrong order. ...