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DON'T BUILD MULTI-AGENTS

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The makers of Devin challenge popular frameworks like OpenAI's Swarm by arguing that parallel subagents create fragile systems due to context-sharing failures and conflicting decision-making. Their approach prioritizes single-threaded agents with full context traces, backed by real-world examples from Claude Code and internal Devin architecture decisions.