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gopalvtoday at 8:08 PM1 replyview on HN

> I want to click together a model that is laser-focused on what I am doing

This is roughly what multi-agent systems are built for.

This is possible with models too, but "making one on the fly" is much easier with agent coordination rather than model weights, since they all speak the same language.

There is an IBM Mainframe vs Google Distributed system division here. Like Seymour Cray said - two oxen or 1024 chickens.

Chickens are harder to harness, so a lot of my work is in sled-dog territory for agent harnesses & command structures.


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kennywinkertoday at 8:28 PM

> This is roughly what multi-agent systems are built for.

I think I disagree. For some things, maybe that works - but think of a multi-agent system where one agent understands the code, and passes it off to the reasoning agent to figure out what the bug is. This system is going to suck. Because encoding enough info to figure out what the bug is would just be dumping every single line of the code.

So say agent 1 (reasoning) asks agent 2 (swift) to explain what is happening in File.swift. Anything agent 2 passes to agent 1 short of the entire code is a lossy transfer - and then the bug gets missed.