Anyone using a swarm of agents in November 2026 to write code is no longer at the frontier of capability.
Running multiple system prompts at once is a perfect example of anthropomorphism. We have this fantasy that a community of diversely aligned agents will somehow outperform a single well-aligned agent. There might be some cases where the random walk takes you where you want to go, but how stable and stressful do you want it to be?
Some of us are using AI as a means to make a living now. If I slip even a little bit on best practices my clients will likely turn into ghosts. Multi agent is an extremely expensive form of entertainment in this context. It's the entire basis for why we have these junkies trolling around HN complaining about how they can never get enough tokens. If I was still playing with these ideas in front of my customers I can guarantee I'd be 100% unemployed right now. They brought me in to make AI into a profit center, not a cost center.