Why multi-agent orchestration is harder than it looks (opens in new tab)

One AI agent answering a question is useful. Five agents that divide a complex task, pass state to each other, and act on live enterprise systems is a meaningfully different category of system. It also carries a meaningfully different category of operational problems. Multi-agent orchestration is the architectural pattern that makes the second case coherent. But a lot of teams prototype multi-agent systems in a weekend and then spend months figuring out why production is unpredictable, expens...