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padolseytoday at 5:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

These vast multi-agentic systems with roles like 'Researcher', 'Writer' (with a review loop), 'Reflection agent', seem to ~feel~ mostly right but lack evals as to the merit of agent decomposition. So it forms a satisfying enough flowchart but I see no evidence these authors actually tried other approaches or agent roles. And let's be honest: an agent is just a system prompt and output contracts, and these rich architectures seem to be pontificating beyond their worth. It all feels a bit vibe-y.


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flirtoday at 8:40 AM

I've been wondering lately if old-school cybernetics might help there.

But my off-the-cuff, uninformed opinion is that the precise structure doesn't matter too much, and the impact these structures really have is that they allow More Tokens for the Token Furnace.

niyikizatoday at 6:55 AM

What would the benefit be? A mega agent that does everything?

There are some well documented advantages of decomposition...that's why the industry favours microservices over monoloths.

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