The decoding tax: latent swarms vs. the pipelines I actually ship
I counted handoffs in my own agent graph last week. Six agents, eleven hops per task, and every single hop does the same dumb thing: a model finishes thinking, renders its internal state into a paragraph of English, and the next model reads that paragraph back in and starts over. Two of those agent…
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- 2026-11-08 14:37 · DEV Community — AI
The decoding tax: latent swarms vs. the pipelines I actually ship