Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns

bob1029 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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dominotw 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

depends on what type of problem it is

	▲	bob1029 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I am curious if we have any examples of problems that can only be solved via multiple concurrent prompts coordinating in real time.

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phainopepla2 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perhaps I'm being uncharitable, but when I open up a page that was obviously created by Claude, I just close it again.

	▲	KellyCriterion 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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

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cush 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Does anyone else open sites with this default claude code theme and immediately close them?