Long-running agents fail when their working context becomes noisy, stale or incomplete. Context engineering treats attention as a managed system resource.
Mac Studio with M5 Ultra offers up to 512 GB of unified memory and 1.2 TB/s bandwidth. It is dramatically faster for some local AI workloads but does not run the CUDA stack.
A2A 1.0 gives independent agents a shared model for discovery, tasks, messages and artifacts. The hard part is deciding when collaboration is worth its cost and risk.
A multi-agent system is useful when separate agents contribute different information, tools or independent verification. It is wasteful when several models repeat the same analysis under different names.