Hamel HusainML Engineer Helping Companies Build AI Products

Stop Splitting One Task Across Multiple Agents

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Hamel Husain critiques the practice of dividing a single task among multiple AI agents. He likens it to repeatedly restricting a human’s capabilities and erasing their memory, resulting in a "fractured intelligence" that is hard to debug. Husain argues that such fragmentation complicates reasoning and error tracing. He proposes consolidating the task into a single agent that first determines the appropriate type of answer before responding, thereby preserving coherent intelligence and simplifying debugging.

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You have like a separate thing here. You're like trying to separate something, then recombine it, and you're kind of fracturing the intelligence. Like if you try to do that to me as a human being, you say like, Hamel, you are only allowed to like do education. Then you gave me like some kind of drugs where I forget everything. You say, okay, now you can only give advice. Then you gave me drugs again and made me forget everything again, you said. And then you say, Hamel, like combine these 2 things you said. I'm gonna be so confused. Like when I give the answer. I would hate for you to have to deal with this fractured intelligence, because you would be debugging this fractured intelligence. Can we just push it all into one agent and then say, like, before you give the answer, you know, have it reason about, like, the type of answer you want it to give?