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Vijoy Pandey

SVP and GM, Outshift by Cisco

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“We saw that 100% of chat dev sessions had semantic failures and cognitive misalignment failures.”
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & ConcordThe Cognitive Revolution, November 11, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Describing Cisco's analysis of public traces from ChatDev, a multi-agent development environment.
“With three cognitive failures, which is not a lot, the accuracy of the multi-agent system dropped to 16%.”
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & ConcordThe Cognitive Revolution, November 11, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Describing Cisco's tests on simple deployments of five-agent systems.
“the system was 66% up, which was defined as working perfectly, but it had 0% task completion”
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & ConcordThe Cognitive Revolution, November 11, 2026. Speaking as: Other. On a simple travel-booking test where dashboards showed agents running but the task was never completed.
“right now I believe that that verifier or that person providing the judgment is actually a person.”
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & ConcordThe Cognitive Revolution, November 11, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Answering who should verify the work of collaborating agents; Pandey adds that agents may take on more of that judgment over time.
“if it means building these latent space protocols where agents can talk to each other not in natural language but with higher dimensionality. Let's build those things.”
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & ConcordThe Cognitive Revolution, November 11, 2026. Speaking as: Other. On agents communicating in machine-native representations that humans cannot read directly.

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  1. PodcastThe Cognitive RevolutionSpeaks

    Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & Concord

    In a 92-minute interview with Nathan Labenz, Cisco's Vijoy Pandey describes multi-agent systems running in production, reports Cisco's measurements of silent coordination failures among agents, and presents three open-source tools, Scope, Accord and Concord, meant to detect and reduce them.