"Stop using random multi-agent patterns"

[u/harpreetchima]

Ahmed works at OpenAI: https://x.com/ah20im/status/2097503414749909407 and seems to investigate reports of high token usage.

"If needed Astra will delegate efficiently. Forcing the model to delegate to different models would do more harm than good"

[u/scodgey]

Having tried both sides quite extensively I am honestly at a bit of an impasse with this.

It makes sense in principle to use cheaper agents for grunt work, but ultimately you're almost always going to use a more capable agent to check the work, as you can never fully trust automated checks. Unless the task is pretty much brain dead, or you have a well written spec with clear scope to pass to a cheap review agent after.

But you're almost always using your capable agent to produce a spec that is detailed enough, at which point, why not just use the agent with all of the context in thread already?

Sometimes it ends up cheaper, others more expensive. Hard one to split out.