| ▲ | bluehatbrit an hour ago | ||||||||||||||||
I'm a hands on engineering leader for a team of about 20 engineers and I've been spending the past 6 months trying to get my team to understand just this. On Friday we had a coffee hour to share how we've been working recently and they all seemed perplexed at the workflows I've been adopting. It seems natural to me as someone who's been a manager for some time now, but very alien to all those who've never gone down that path. That's not to say my workflows are superior, but they're extremely different to some of my teams now. In reality it's just leaning heavily on things like prds, limiting communication between agents, etc. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | conradev 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
In the few instances that I’ve been able to see a total stranger prompt a model, I learn a lot about them. The model output is fairly uniform because the models are fairly uniform, but the input is how I understand the prompter’s theory of mind for the LLM. The higher fidelity the theory of mind, the more productive the resulting conversation is. Basic things, like knowing what the model is even aware of. It’s okay at subjective product judgements with limited context, and so the best engineers make the most important decisions themselves, constraining the model’s solution space to something looking like success. Maintaining consistent progress towards a common goal with a bunch of different perspectives is the job. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Fordec an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Out of curiosity, what was the path that the engineers have been taking? The limiting communication between agents to my mind is obvious to anyone who hasn't swallowed orthodoxy Agile development completely whole. And in my experience the people who have, are rarely the devs. Context switching, between agents, people or whoever, require ramp up time to relearn context. It's always slower and more expensive, other potential upsides about long term training or developers being more replaceable notwithstanding. But no agent gets long term training, not in a 1M context window. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | luipugs 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Can you share some details of the workflows that work for you? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | cactusplant7374 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Is anyone on your team not using multi agent? | |||||||||||||||||