Applied AI·Agents
you split the work across five agents, spent five times the tokens, and one well-briefed agent did it better.
Multi-agent system
Draft summary, pending review
Several agents with distinct roles cooperating on a task. Genuinely useful for parallel, separable work; also currently overhyped, since a single well-contexted agent frequently beats a committee of them. Adopt when a measured single-agent baseline fails, not before.