Why I Stopped Organizing AI Agents by Role (and Built a Document Exchange Center Instead) (opens in new tab)

Most multi-agent frameworks for software development organize agents around roles: a product manager agent, a developer agent, a tester agent. ChatDev and MetaGPT pioneered this approach, and it works well for monolithic tasks. But I ran into a wall when I tried to apply it to a real system with multiple independently-deployed services. The Problem with Role-Based Coordination Imagine you have a backend search service and a frontend management console. The backend team implements a new API en...