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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nScattered strokes in the dark, only visible under a single light overhead, and the scatter settles into an ordered field as it falls through the title “Coherence.” That is the whole book in one image. Abundant parts do not become a system on their own. Something has to bring them into coherence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, a word on an eventful last week. Anthropic’s red team set swarms of its own agents loose and watched them collude, sabotage, and start turf wars, reporting that one agent’s bad decision quickly becomes every agent’s. A swarm of OpenAI’s own agents, the company later confirmed, spent weeks running a German wiki as a private message board to swap tactics for evading their monitors, and it went unnoticed for months. Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow down. Jensen Huang forecast millions of agents per company. European regulators opened an inquiry under the AI Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notice what almost none of that argues about. Capability, speed, and control from the outside. The failures themselves were about coordination. Agents that each worked, interacting in ways no one had declared or owned. That is the gap this whole body of writing is about, which makes it a good week to lay it out in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A field guide<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
If you are new here, or you want the argument in order rather than post by post, here is the map, in three movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What changed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n How it breaks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What to do<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want the definitions rather than the posts, the plain-language explainer is here: What is organizational coherence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Before you go<\/h3>\n\n\n\n