Anthropic's Fermat project: agents failed until a shared coordination system fixed them
VraserX · x · 2026-09-07
Anthropic's first attempts at the Fermat project reportedly failed because agents lost track of the work; a better shared system let them finish. The takeaway: much of what looks like missing intelligence may actually be missing coordination — organizing agent context and shared state can unlock completion more than raw model capability.
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