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7/19/2026
The original title is: "Why Multi-Agent Orchestration Fails: A Case Study with 298 Tickets and 62 Videos"

The original title is: "Why Multi-Agent Orchestration Fails: A Case Study with 298 Tickets and 62 Videos"

Original: Why Agent Orchestration Sucks and the Loop Wins

Short summary

An eight-agent AI video pipeline generated 298 tickets to produce 62 videos, with failures stemming from one root cause: shared storage is not shared context. Agents couldn't see each other's state, handoffs lost critical information, and bugs were non-reproducible because LLM phrasing changed on re-runs. The solution: replace orchestration with a single main agent holding resident context, using subagents only for genuinely parallel or isolated work.

  • •8-agent video pipeline produced 298 tickets for 62 videos — 4.3 tickets per video
  • •Root cause: shared storage is not shared context; agents lack each other's state
  • •Solution: single main agent with resident context, subagents only for true parallelism or isolation

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