The extra time and cost agents spend talking, syncing, and fixing mistakes.
It is like a group project with five group chats. Everyone writes fast. Then everyone argues about the same slide.
This slows down teams of AI agents. Big jobs can lose the speed gain.
Agent swarm
More agents can add talk time and erase the gain from sharing work.
MAS
MAS pays this hidden cost to sync work and fix conflicts.
Orchestration
Orchestration can cut repeat work and prevent clashes.
Agent Concurrency
Agents acting at once can fight over resources and lose sync.