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Discussion on: Anyone Can Spawn 300 Agents. Nobody Can Merge Their Output.

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Tae Kim •

Four agents, all producing valid outputs, and the merge step failed every time because two of them had tagged the same company under different names with no way to detect it. We spent about a week on prompt changes before someone noticed the keys didn't match across agent outputs at all. Adding a pre-merge normalization pass that resolved names to canonical IDs before any aggregation ran fixed it, but it took a surprisingly long time to notice that was where the problem was sitting.