Why Competitive Agent Routing Beats Static Orchestration

And why your router is about to become your bottleneck You're a developer. You've built something that works—a system with multiple agents, each specialized, each good at one job. Your router picks which agent handles which request. It works. Then you scale. At agent #5, your router is a simple if/else chain. Ugly, but fine. At agent #30, it's a switch statement. Maintainable. At agent #100, you're rewriting it every sprint. New agent added? Update the router. Agent retired? Update the router. N