Inter-agent communication — CCA-F Exam Prep

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COMPARISON Split screen. Left: two coworkers sitting at the same desk, sharing one computer screen, talking over each other. Right: two coworkers in separate offices, each writing memos and sliding them under the other's door. Both are trying to collaborate. Both have problems.

Split screen. Left: two coworkers sitting at the same desk, sharing one computer screen, talking over each other. Right: two coworkers in separate offices, each writing memos and sliding them under the other's door. Both are trying to collaborate. Both have problems.

Company A put everyone in one room with one shared whiteboard. By noon, nobody could think. Company B put everyone in separate offices with no shared tools. By noon, three teams had built the same feature.

Too much sharing is noise. Too little sharing is waste. Agents face the exact same tradeoff. How they pass information between each other determines whether they collaborate or collide.