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5. Orchestrating many agents

Multi-agent / swarm

Several agents working one problem at once. "Swarm" is the flavor with many loosely coordinated agents exploring in parallel — five agents each drafting a different landing page, a judge picking the best.

Why it matters: parallel attempts plus selection often beats one careful attempt — a genuinely new way to buy quality with volume. But coordination overhead is real: more agents is not automatically better.