alt Hacker NewsI'm going through the same problem right now
Qwen 3.8 27b is the supervisor
Qwen 3.5 4b are the 6-15 minions it controls
Gemma 4 e4b is the validator for the supervisor.
A plan means it preps all work for the agents up front, tests that evals work, makes sure the dev environment is right for each agent, then finds and fixes each before the distributed tasks even begin.
What I thought would take minutes took hours as a supervisor or one agent did the prep / pre flight work.
My solution so far has been to drop all but basic setup and force the supervisor to ask before every op - if this is not the design choices, can this be run in parallel? If so, hand it off NOW.
I'm still iterating this workflow, but less setup for all the minions plus handing them work that may be incomplete/ broken is caught and fixed by the minion and its own qa gates.
This can mean a number of minions end up replicating the same fixes, but in general the time cost of that is small Vs the supervisor working in parallel instead of too sequentially.
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Tell the planner to not do all that. Just plan out the high level. No code. No implementation details.
How do you set all of that up with supervisor and minions? What harness?
> Qwen 3.8 27b is the supervisor
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> Qwen 3.5 4b are the 6-15 minions it controls
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> Gemma 4 e4b is the validator for the supervisor.
If you can run the smarter 3.8 27B model, why not use it for everything?