alt Hacker NewsSo I wonder, if a more powerful agent harness could have the agent basically write and exectute its own deteministic code, which when executed, spawns sub agents for each of the subtasks?
So far we've seen agents spawn subagents directly, but that still means leaving the final flow control to the non-deterministic orchestrator model, and so your case is a perfect example of where it would probably fail.
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peyton • today at 12:49 AM
I make codex do everything through a giant `justfile`. Simple, greppable, self-documenting, works great, and I don’t even need to read it.
I've been working on an integrated deterministic/agent integrated system for a few months now. It basically runs an AI step to build a plan, which biases towards deterministic steps as much as possible but escalates back to AI when it needs to (for AI only capabilities or deterministic failures) so effectively (when I perfect it, I'm about 90% there) it can bounce back and forward as needed with deterministic steps launching AI steps and AI steps launching deterministic steps as needed.
Probably not explaining it very well but I think it's pretty effective at reducing token usage.