Your orchestrator is a middle manager, your reviewer agent is a flunky, and your swarm is a bullshit-jobs factory
Summary
A critical commentary comparing AI agent orchestrators to middle managers, reviewer agents to flunkies, and swarms to factories producing bullshit jobs, highlighting perceived inefficiencies in multi-agent systems.
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