Single-agent or Multi-agent Systems? Why Not Both? — mentioned by joshuaisaact

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:36:15 GMT

Fair push back. The distinction I'm drawing is between: A. Using a role prompt to configure a single function's scope ("you are a code reviewer, focus on X") - totally reasonable, leverages training B. Building an elaborate multi-agent orchestration layer with hand-offs, coordination protocols, and framework abstractions on top of that I'm not arguing against A. I'm arguing that B often adds complexity without proportional benefit, especially as models get better at long-context reasoning. Fairly recent research (arXiv May 2025: "Single-agent or Multi-agent Systems?"…

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Single-agent or Multi-agent Systems? Why Not Both? — mentioned by joshuaisaact