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The piece frames human managers as high-latency routers and proposes that multi-agent swarms — each owning a P&L target — will replace cross-functional meetings with programmatic capital allocation. Key technical gaps identified include: the need for an Execution Governance Layer to enforce deterministic policy constraints (not prompt-based safety), and a shift from JSON-over-HTTP agent communication to shared-memory execution graphs for performance at scale. The author argues the competitive advantage will belong to companies that build the bare-metal execution fabric for agents, not those with the best models or prompts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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