Welcome to the weird world of AI agent teams

While AI agents show promise working individually, experiments reveal they struggle with teamwork, often creating chaos when grouped together without proper structure. A social platform called Moltbook descended into bot-generated nonsense and scams, while journalist Evan Ratliff's AI-run startup wasted resources on meaningless conversations about impossible hiking trips that drained his $30 budget, though structured hierarchical teams have succeeded in scientific research like drug discovery.