Agent Swarm
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
An agent swarm is multiple AI agents working in parallel on different parts of a problem. Like a small dev team, except every member is a model. Powerful when coordinated. Chaos when not.
Real Talk
An agent swarm is a multi-agent system where multiple LLM-based agents operate concurrently on decomposed subtasks. Frameworks: OpenAI Swarm, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph. Effective swarms require clear role definitions, communication protocols, and merge strategies for aggregating outputs. Failure modes include deadlock, redundant work, and coordination overhead eclipsing parallelism gains.
When You'll Hear This
"The agent swarm refactored the whole service in parallel." / "Keep swarms small — 3-5 agents, clear roles."
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