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Title: New Study Reveals that Agentic AI Swarms Recreate Middle Management Dysfunction

United States, 26th Feb 2026 —A new study, The Organizational Physics of Multi-Agent AI, reveals that agentic artificial intelligence (Agentic AI) “swarms” recreate the dysfunction in middle management that the technology purports to reduce. The result of a controlled experiment that compared single-agent, hierarchical multi-agent, stigmergic multi-agent, and pipeline architectures on identical software engineering tasks, the report demonstrates how Agentic AI replicates many of the counterproductive processes that are inherent to organizational management.Jeremy McEntire, a veteran software engineer and engineering executive, undertook the study as part of his analysis of agentic AI as a corporate technology. “The findings here are not encouraging,” explained McEntire. “However, they are not surprising. AI is essentially backward-looking. Its intelligence is based on data from existing management procedures, so it is not a big shock to see that the agents start to act similarly to flawed human beings.”Specifically, the study showed the following results:Single agent: 28/28 tasks completedHierarchical agents: 18/28 Stigmergic agents: 9/28 tasks completedPipeline: 0/28 tasks completed. The agents consumed the entire $50 compute budget on planning, but produced no deployable codeReview stages rejected 87% of agent submissions. Four rejections had zero factual basis. The pipeline architecture reproduced bureaucratic dysfunction with no humans involved. The research formalizes this usingCrawford-Sobel signal degradation theory, Goodhart's Law, and the Data Processing Inequality.The findings underscore the importance of diligence for organizations that want to deploy agentic AI. The technology is now the subject of extensive hype, and...

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