A bad agent stack often looks suspiciously like a bad committee. One agent proposes a plan. Another wanders into a neighbouring topic. A third confidently supplies a detail that is almost right, which is a particularly expensive genre of wrong. Then the system fuses the outputs, declares victory, and leaves the human operator to discover that “collaboration” was just error propagation wearing a nicer blazer. ...
TL;DR for operators The paper is useful because it treats hallucination less like a mystical defect of large language models and more like an operational risk that can be routed, checked, scored, and sometimes refused. Amer and Amer propose a proof-of-concept multi-agent architecture for SMS-based pharmacy prescription-renewal requests.1 A customer might send a clean message like “1, unenroll”, or something messier: a renewal code, a complaint about medicine taste, a question about blood-pressure medication, and a polite thank-you bundled into one little administrative grenade. ...