Great Minds Think (a Little Too Much) Alike

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic gave thirty AI agents the same coding task. Eighteen of them named their git branch exactly the same thing. That result opens one of the strangest findings of 2026: when teams of AI agents face the classic "hidden profile" experiment, where the shared evidence points to the wrong answer and the decisive facts are scattered across individuals, they succeed only 17 to 36 percent of the time. Human groups in the original 1985 study? 18 percent. Forty years, a completel...