20-Agent Experiment Shows Intelligence Lies in Connections, Not Models
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-08-17
- Setup: A 20-agent Grok bot with 340 connections running in parallel on a shared context bus.
- Finding: Performance swings wildly based solely on the connection graph. With identical models, prompts, and budget, changing "who talks to whom" shifts results from better-than-single-agent to worse.
- Takeaway: Intelligence resides in the arrows (connections) between agents, not the agents themselves. Success comes from designing graphs, not just picking models.
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