Agree. We came to the same conclusion sometime last year. Now we solely focus on a single threaded agent - and make them run longer in a focussed way.
You dont need a team of humans to write great code - one engineer with solitude and focus is all it takes.
ddp26•38m ago
Snake oil is a bit strong, no? I would agree that the burden of proof is on multi-agent systems to show they are outperforming single-agent systems.
On my own evals I have seen this, though the improvement may not have been worth the extra cost.
akrylov•9m ago
The name of the thread is provocative, but the premise is valid - I have yet to see anything produced by multi-agent frameworks (langchain or bespoke works) that produced value. Anthropic pushes vibeCAD, vibeVFX, vibePowerPoint but the results are underwhelming. The real value is in codegeneration and autonomous infra, research.
sonink•44m ago
You dont need a team of humans to write great code - one engineer with solitude and focus is all it takes.