AutoGen and CrewAI Developers: Your Swarm Has a Coordination Tax — Here's How to Measure It
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Understanding QIS - Part 88 · Building on Part 86: QIS Protocol Layer Under AI Agents You added agents. The system got slower. You've been told multi-agent systems scale. The pitch is compelling: distribute the work, specialize by role, let agents coordinate. AutoGen. CrewAI. LangGraph. These are excellent frameworks. They do what they say. But every one of them has a structural property that creates a coordination tax - a hidden overhead that grows as you add agents.