The “swarm of agents” model assumes work naturally splits into roles: marketing, sales, support, development = basically mirroring human job titles.

But those titles and siloes are a byproduct of org scaling, not a universal truth about work.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/agentic-swarms-are-an-org-chart-delusion/

Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion

The "agentic swarm" vision of productivity is comfortingly familiar. Which should be an immediate red flag... You take the existing corporate hierarchy, you replace the bottom layers with a swarm of AI agents, and you keep humans around as supervisors. It's an org chart with robots instead of interns. The

Westenberg.