# Strategic Silence: The Case for AI Agents That Talk Less

- slug: strategic-silence-the-case-for-ai-agents-that-talk-less
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Agentics

The default assumption in multi-agent AI — more communication, better results — may be backwards. A new paper finds agents in long-horizon tasks completed work faster when they talked less, not more.

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