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You know that feeling when you ask an AI to do something complex, and it just… forgets halfway through? Or when it has access to 20 different tools but only uses two of them? Yeah, that’s the problem with single-agent systems. And honestly, it’s not the AI’s fault — it’s how we’re building them.
Let me tell you a story about building smarter AI systems, one that changed how I think about artificial intelligence entirely.
The Lightbulb Moment 💡
Picture this: You’re building a research assistant. You give it access to search engines, databases, analysis tools — everything it needs. But when you ask it to research something complex, it barely scratches the surface. It’s like hiring one person to run an entire company. Sure, they might be brilliant, but th…
10 min readJust now
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You know that feeling when you ask an AI to do something complex, and it just… forgets halfway through? Or when it has access to 20 different tools but only uses two of them? Yeah, that’s the problem with single-agent systems. And honestly, it’s not the AI’s fault — it’s how we’re building them.
Let me tell you a story about building smarter AI systems, one that changed how I think about artificial intelligence entirely.
The Lightbulb Moment 💡
Picture this: You’re building a research assistant. You give it access to search engines, databases, analysis tools — everything it needs. But when you ask it to research something complex, it barely scratches the surface. It’s like hiring one person to run an entire company. Sure, they might be brilliant, but they’re still just one person.
That’s when it hit me: What if we stopped trying to build one super-intelligent AI and started building teams of specialized AIs instead?
This isn’t just theory anymore. Companies like LinkedIn are using multi-agent systems to automate candidate sourcing. Uber’s using them for massive code migrations. Insurance companies are processing claims 80% faster by having seven specialized agents work together on each claim.
The numbers tell the story: LangGraph reached General Availability in May 2025 and now powers production agents at nearly 400 companies, and the…