These vast multi-agentic systems with roles like 'Researcher', 'Writer' (with a review loop), 'Reflection agent', seem to ~feel~ mostly right but lack evals as to the merit of agent decomposition. So it forms a satisfying enough flowchart but I see no evidence these authors actually tried other approaches or agent roles. And let's be honest: an agent is just a system prompt and output contracts, and these rich architectures seem to be pontificating beyond their worth. It all feels a bit vibe-y.
flir 2 hours ago||
I've been wondering lately if old-school cybernetics might help there.
But my off-the-cuff, uninformed opinion is that the precise structure doesn't matter too much, and the impact these structures really have is that they allow More Tokens for the Token Furnace.
niyikiza 4 hours ago||
What would the benefit be? A mega agent that does everything?
There are some well documented advantages of decomposition...that's why the industry favours microservices over monoloths.
mattmanser 2 hours ago||
Bad architects favour microservices over monoliths.
YAGNI almost always applies to microservices, and the coordination overhead and boilerplate they add introduces immense costs, especially for smaller companies.
This homogenisation of architecture around Netflix size engineering has really cost our industry a lot.
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marsven_422 5 hours ago||
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Why is comment from padolsey dead? Seriously, something fishy is going on on this website.