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Many coordinator-and-children multi-agent systems do not let child agents communicate directly, even when peer communication could help them solve their tasks; adding peer communication significantly increases scaffold complexity.
Noam Brown · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“two children are given similar tasks can they talk to each other and usually the answer is no and that's that's very inefficient right if you're if you're given a task and it's actually really helpful to talk to somebody that might know an answer to a question that you're working on or part part of something that you're working on it'd be really helpful if we just be able to ping them and say hey can you help me out with this thing but a lot of systems”
“don't have that setup and adding it just increases the complexity significantly to the scaffold that you have another thing is like what if the child doesn't really understand or has a clarification question so it has to choose then between okay do I just return and ask the question instead of giving instead of solving the problem or do I solve the problem just like make an assumption about what the parent wanted me to do and and just solve it that way”Play from 10:04Report a misattribution
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