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AI agent coordination design

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Agents require less human-designed coordination than expected

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2026-10-01

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Agents require less human-designed coordination than expected

Ethan Mollick initially believed that organizing AI agents effectively would require careful, time-intensive human design—akin to building a company—but later revised this view after observing how agents self-organize.

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The Dot and the Swarm

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I thought that getting agents to work effectively as a group would take careful construction, akin to building a company, and that this would take time to figure out.
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how I suspected that humans would have to approach working with agents as a manager, deciding how to delegate work to agents and specifying how those agents should be organized.

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