@mattshumer_: Guys, these insane setups are fun and all, but they don't actually make you more productive. You just end up spending m…
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The tweet argues that complex multi-agent setups are unnecessary for productivity, advocating instead for a single manager agent that coordinates others, based on the author's experience with running numerous agents.
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Guys, these insane setups are fun and all, but they don’t actually make you more productive. You just end up spending more time building the system than actually doing real work.
All you need is one agent session that farms out to others and acts as a manager. If something’s not working, just tell that to your main session and it’ll adjust the overall approach.
If you’re using the best models available, you shouldn’t need anything more than this. This is coming from a guy who runs hundreds of agents a day, dozens at a time, with spikes in the hundreds at a time.
I’ll be writing more about this soon.
Adam (@_overment): and this is how I work with agents now.
- I speak with Grok bots
- they coordinate Pi sessions
- Pi sessions interact with each other
- the Pi extension manipulates each worker’s context
- the Pi extension guides workers to keep the journal up to date
- the Grok bot routine
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