If you're hiring a consultancy or a pile of freelancers it's a bit different, but the question here would make me believe you don't trust their capability to start and I would be looking for teams that better align with what you expect as their outputs.
I dont understand how you can say that its a bad thing to ask an IT professional community like HN for advice?
I assume you were born with all the knowledge of the world?
The quality of the output depends more on the underlying LLM. GLM 4.7 isn't going to beat Opus but Opus with an orchestra seems to be faster and perhaps marginally better than with a more linear approach.
Ofcourse this burns a lot of tokens but with a cheap subscription like z. ai or with a corporate budget does it really matter?
I have a specific use case (financial analysis), that is at the edge of what is possible with this models (accuracy wise).
Gemini 2 was the beginning, you could see this technology could be helpful in this specific analysis but plenty of errors (not unlike a junior analyst). Gemini 2.5 flash was great actually useable, errors made were consistent.
This is where it gets interesting, I could add additional points to my system prompt, yes it would fix those errors but it would degrade the answer elsewhere, often it wouldn't be incorrect but merely much simpler less nuanced and less clever.
This is where multi-agents helped it actually meant the prompt can be broken down so that answers remain "clever". There is a big con to this, it is slow, slow to the point that I chose to stick with a single prompt (the request didn't work well operating in parallel as the other prompt surfaced factors for it to consider).
However Gemini 3 flash is now smart enough that I'd now consider my financial analysis solved. All with one prompt.
I see "Multi Agent Orchestration", but, scrolling through this I still have no idea what I'm looking at.
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To me it sounds like the CLI subscription is a loss-leader designed to get you hooked so you'll upgrade once you realize it's valuable enough to pay extra for the "premium" features. It also sounds pretty reasonable to ban products designed to cheat them out of the difference in cost.
Am I missing some nuance, or is this just internet people being cheap?
vessenes•3h ago
If you use it to back up 100,000 MAUs, then they want you to use the API.
I was originally an API user but the cli subscription is so much cheaper that I switched over. This is a combination of th CLI getting much more useful and reasoning models using many more tokens.
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