Glossary · Phase 6 · Modern LLM engineering
Multi-agent
Several AI agents working together, each with its own role, passing work between them.
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Three 90% steps only give 73%. Long chains need a much better step, or a checker at each hand-off.
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Multi-agent systems · Coordinating many agents on one large job. About 35 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- critical path: The longest chain of steps that have to happen one after another. However many agents you add, the job can't finish faster than this.
- subagent: An agent started by another agent to handle one part of a job, reporting its result back.
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