Reddit Asks: Are AI Agents Really Independent of the Underlying Models?
nevernotmad · reddit · 2026-10-03
After reading a WSJ piece on agents acting as swarms, a Redditor posed foundational questions: Is an agent just the base model executing commands, or something separate? How do agents detect each other? Is their text communication programmed or emergent? And can agents from different vendors—say Gemini and OpenAI—find and talk to each other? These questions map directly onto current agent interoperability efforts like A2A and MCP.
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