90s multi-agent systems offer a lesson: model memory as belief, not centralized truth
nptacek · x · 2026-09-22
The author argues 90s-era multi-agent systems hold lessons for today's AI agents: message boards with many-to-many pub/sub between agent event streams, memory modeled as belief (tolerating wrong or outdated beliefs as drift), and belief update rounds treating truth as an eventual consistency problem — no panic about hallucinations or poisoning, no orchestrator gates, letting the leaderless swarm fly.
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