The Truth About Agent Swarming: What the Gurus Won't Tell You About Cost, Failure, and Security (opens in new tab)

Everyone's building "AI agent teams" right now. Five agents, ten agents, a whole swarm collaborating on complex tasks. At least that's what the YouTube thumbnails promise. The reality? Most of these systems are burning money, leaking data, and failing in ways their builders don't even notice until the invoice arrives. I built a multi-agent system. It runs in production, daily. So I'm not here to tell you agent swarming doesn't work. I'm here to tell you that most of the advice circulating abo...