Multi-Agent Is the New Microservices — And Enterprises Are Already Making the Same Mistakes
Somewhere in your company’s recent strategy deck, there’s a slide about multi-agent AI systems. It probably has a diagram with six or eight boxes connected by arrows, each box representing a specialized agent — one for research, one for synthesis, one for outreach, one for quality control. It looks clean. It looks powerful. It looks exactly like the microservices architecture slides that were circulating in 2014. InfoWorld is issuing the same warning now that engineers were quietly issuing then: distributed complexity is not a free upgrade. You have to earn it. ...