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Why Single-Agent AI Systems Are Being Replaced by Agent Teams

Most AI agents today are still designed like monoliths: one prompt, one model, one response.

That works for Q&A.
It fails for anything that looks like real work.

Tasks like competitive research, synthesis across sources, and self-verification expose the limits of solo agents very quickly.

What’s happening now mirrors classic software evolution:

  • Monolithic apps → distributed services
  • Single prompts → coordinated agent teams

We built a production research workflow using CrewAI to explore this shift end-to-end.

In our latest newsletter, we cover:

  • The architectural reasons solo agents break down
  • What production multi-agent systems actually look like
  • How teams evaluate and catch failures before users do

Multi-agent systems aren’t an experiment anymore.
They’re how complex AI work gets done reliably.

📖 Read the full breakdown here -> https://shorturl.at/5PmDc

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