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Coordination Failure in Multi-Agent AI

The Nash Equilibrium of Enterprise AI

5–10% AI success rate
O(n²) coordination overhead
7–10 agent ceiling
94% compute consumed
Prisoner's Dilemma Payoff Structure
Default Apply Mechanism Design
Agent B →
Cooperate
Defect
Cooperate
3, 3
Reward · R
0, 5
Sucker · S
Defect
5, 0
Temptation · T
Nash Equilibrium
1, 1
Punishment · P
"This is where 95% of enterprise AI lives"
O(n²) Coordination Overhead Scaling
Build vs Buy: Coordination Success Rate

"Builders design coordination implicitly through architectural control.
Buyers inherit coordination failure as a product feature."