Alice Hayes

Single agents are manageable. The moment agents start handing work to each other, failures stop being traceable. One bad output becomes the next agent s trusted input, and the break shows up far from where it started.
If you ve got a multi-agent system running reliably in production, what made it work? Narrower tool scopes, strict handoff rules, better tracing, fewer agents?

I hated meetings. Still do. But I noticed the problem was not the meeting itself. It was the scheduling, the setup, the thirty minutes of context before anything useful happened.

So I tried something. Instead of booking time, I sent a voice note. Just me, talking through the thing I needed to say, for two minutes.

I cancelled something last week and I could not explain to the founder why. Not because the reason was complicated. Because it was embarrassing. The product worked fine. I just stopped opening it.

That is the most common kind of churn and almost none of it gets reported honestly. People say price or features or a competitor. The real answer is usually that a habit never formed. The product was fine and it was not quite the shape of my day.