Multi-Agent Systems & Their Tendency to Develop Alzheimer's

TLDR: Everyone is excited about multi-agent swarms. Few are talking about the actual bottleneck. This post is about that bottleneck: memory. We now have cheap inference, capable models, and production-ready orchestration frameworks. But when you scale to 10+ agents working in parallel across days of iteration, the coordination breaks down, not because the models are dumb, but because nobody has solved how agents store, share, and retrieve context at scale....

February 18, 2026 · 8 min · Thomas Emnetu