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More agents do not guarantee better results

CooperBench found that paired coding agents performed worse on average than a single agent completing both tasks, exposing a coordination penalty.

Stanford University and SAP Labs19 January 2026Reviewed 26 July 2026
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What the evidence indicates

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CooperBench found that paired coding agents performed worse on average than a single agent completing both tasks, exposing a coordination penalty.

FUURAA interpretation

Why this could matter

Multi-agent architecture should be justified by measured division-of-labour gains, not by agent count.

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