WHY AI SWARMS CANNOT BUILD ARCHITECTURE

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Agents can be individually excellent but collectively incoherent. Two agents with identical training who independently come up with the same answer aren't coordinating, they're sampling from the same distribution. Swarms are parallel, independent, and stateless. They have no propagation mechanism, and scaling makes it worse. Adding global visibility, temporal persistence, and enforcement authority to a swarm would change it into a hierarchical system with stochastic workers, creating an architecture that allows for coordination.