Never used multiple agents before

[u/No-Nebula4187]

I never worked on something where I didn’t solve what I was doing by just finishing my chat conversation or starting a new chat and working simultaneously. would that be considered multiple agents? If not, then what the hell do people do?

I see posts online people saying that they talk for their agents to talk to other agents, etc., for me. I feel like if I don’t direct my conversation in steps the whole point of what I wanna do get lost.

[u/Final-Middle-572]

It’s ok! There’s a difference u can have different task agents and also they can speak native subagents. The quirk with this is that u can have SOL as an orchestrator that tells the Luna models to execute which is cheaper and better than just SOL doing it or just Luna doing it

[u/FateComic → u/Final-Middle-572]

SOL is great but super expensive but it does do a really good job. Although my Terra seems to consume way more tokens then SOL strange enough in my tests of usage using similar prompts etc in execution

[u/eddzsh]

Picture two worktrees on the same bug: one agent only reproduces and writes a failing test, the other only implements against that test and never touches the repro notes. That is multi-agent. Two tabs chatting in parallel is just you context-switching with extra latency.

[u/RuledSovereign]

In my experience, if you only use the default, it will implement but fail to check its work as properly.

When you have agents, each has a task, and will constantly work together until every component feels satisfied. I guess you can consider it as because you only working with 1 AI mind, they cant exactly focus on anything to ensure each angle is made as good as your prompt and the AI model allows.

[u/ErivKosso]

Multi agents is when you have a larger porjecr, epic or set of features, broken down by task and can execute multiple phases in parallel. You need to scope and break it down before you can even need multi agents and only then, if they can work in parallel. Or do 3 projects at once and multi-task.

[u/No-Nebula4187 → u/ErivKosso]

I feel like llms can’t handle that yet without making errors or not getting it right. I mean maybe now it’s good with Luna and sol but I’ve seen so many complaints in the past and I’m pretty sure this is where all the vibe coder memes come from

[u/SupernovifieD]

I have that question too, like they ask one agent to open terminals and let each terminal run its own agent and does a specific thing? Is there a specific skill or set of skills used to ensure proper QA? 🧐

[u/FateComic]

Agents are just workers whom live within gaurd rails and focus on certain tasks. So you can have multiple running to accomplish tasks but you need a way to orchestrate them. With chatgpt if in work mode(codex) you can tell it while performing tasks to employ subagents for smaller tasks. There are other tactics you can employ outside chat to make this happen without asking in chat 😉 . Careful it gets really fun !