Orchestration and Multi-Agent Systems

1. The Skeptical Framing, Stated First

Multi-agent is the module's most hyped topic, so start any interview answer with the honest baseline: one competent agent, with good tools and bounded context, solves most problems. Every agent you add on top multiplies cost, latency, and failure surface. Failure surface just means the number of places where things can go wrong. The compounding-error arithmetic from the loop lesson gets worse, not better, once you spread it across agents