Sub agents are significantly more useful than multi agents.
Wrap a nested prompt with a tool call that is invoked by the caller prompt. That is the answer to all your suffering. You can repeat this for as many layers of invocation as you desire. You can layer determinism and non-determinism as much as you like in whatever orders you see fit with additional alignment, retry policies, logging, etc.
Agents running concurrently will not go any faster than one well-designed hierarchical agent system.
Imagine the simple task of incrementing a global counter. That would be my #1 benchmark. If you can demonstrate a MAS can increment that counter faster than a single agent can (monotonically without skipping), then I will happily delete 100% of the AI-related code I've authored and start over using your ideas.
dominotw•38m ago
depends on what type of problem it is
phainopepla2•26m ago
Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but when I open up a page that was obviously created by Claude, I just close it again.
KellyCriterion•22m ago
TBH, this one is an example of the rather good bucket, Id say?
I have seen much much worse examples on corporate blogs for example, where I question if authors even understand how to use any publishing system and how colors & info architecture works :-D
cush•25m ago
Does anyone else open sites with this default claude code theme and immediately close them?
bob1029•40m ago
Wrap a nested prompt with a tool call that is invoked by the caller prompt. That is the answer to all your suffering. You can repeat this for as many layers of invocation as you desire. You can layer determinism and non-determinism as much as you like in whatever orders you see fit with additional alignment, retry policies, logging, etc.
Agents running concurrently will not go any faster than one well-designed hierarchical agent system.
Imagine the simple task of incrementing a global counter. That would be my #1 benchmark. If you can demonstrate a MAS can increment that counter faster than a single agent can (monotonically without skipping), then I will happily delete 100% of the AI-related code I've authored and start over using your ideas.
dominotw•38m ago