Multi-Agent Systems: Architecture Patterns for Developers
Most production agent projects do not fail because the model is weak. They fail because one agent was asked to hold too much at once: routing, planning, tool use, memory, and error recovery all inside a single growing prompt. By 2026, this failure mode shows up in nearly every engineering retro, and the fix is usually the same. Split the work across several coordinated agents. The numbers back this up. Gartner reports that roughly 80% of enterprise applications shipped or updated in early 2026 e
