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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. ...

March 16, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina
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Stop the All-Hands Meeting: When AI Agents Learn Who Actually Needs to Talk

Meetings are expensive, even when the employees are synthetic Every organization has seen the meeting that should have been an email. Everyone attends, everyone hears everything, and somehow the person who needed one precise fact receives it after forty minutes of theatrical alignment. Multi-agent AI systems often reproduce the same disease, only faster. A coding agent, a testing agent, a research agent, a planning agent, and a manager agent are assembled into a “team.” Then the system lets them talk through a fixed pipeline, a broadcast channel, or a reusable graph. It feels collaborative. It is also a polite way to dump irrelevant context into everyone’s prompt and call the mess intelligence. ...

February 6, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina