The Coordination Tax
Nate B Jones • AI News & Strategy

AI Architecture • January 2026

The Coordination Tax
That's Destroying Your AI Throughput

Why adding more agents can actually make systems perform worse — and the 5 rules for building multi-agent architectures that actually scale.

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10,000 dumb agents beats one brilliant agent. Scale through simplicity. Invest in orchestration, not agent intelligence.