logoalt Hacker News

MuffinFlavored • yesterday at 10:12 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

    > 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.
I just use Opus 5.5 and don't think about it?

Replies

SillyUsername • yesterday at 11:42 PM

These are self hosted for learning experience, I could have built an agent swarm in the cloud, but I'd never have learnt the fundamentals.

- Cold starts impact, context length issues, task lifecycle management

- Inefficiencies in delegation, necessitating workflow patterns for small projects (big AIs hide this problem until you scale and they hit the same issues).

- Limits of the AI would be harder to find or notice (e.g. where time - and cost - is being spent needlessly).

UncleOxidant • yesterday at 10:35 PM

Or just use a more capable local model like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

➕ show 1 reply