Why a Text File Is Not a Debate Protocol
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Generative AI
Why a Text File Is Not a Debate Protocol There is a moment in multi-agent work where the human becomes the weakest coordination layer. Not because the human judgment is bad. Because the human becomes the message bus. One terminal has the conductor role. Another terminal is executing the fix. A third agent is acting as devil's advocate. One may be Claude Code, one may be Codex, one may be another MCP-capable runtime. The plan is real. The work is ambitious. The code is risky enough to deserve adversarial review. And then the workflow collapses into copy and paste. There is a new message.