4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Frequent inter-agent check-ins and messages can interrupt reasoning agents' thought process, while authorization in that setting is difficult to design correctly.

Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026

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“where they're really good at thinking deeply about a problem.”
“it just like kind of interrupts their chain of thought it interrupts their flow to constantly be like checking in with other agents or like receiving messages from them and the authorization is actually very hard to get right in that situation i”
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