Multi-agent debate with a hidden orchestrator: what I learned running it on free-tier APIs
Summary
A practitioner shares lessons from running a multi-agent debate system with a hidden backend orchestrator on free-tier APIs, revealing that opposing personas outperform identical ones and that rate limits accidentally improve debate quality. This forms the core of Lunaar, a BYOK, free multi-agent debate tool currently in development.
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