Ask HN: Agent swarm, orchestra, sequential, what's your workflow?

Hi, Something I've read here and there is people using LLMs for multi-agent orchestration, and I cannot fully understand the idea behind it. So for those of you who do, do you not review code anymore, as you're undoubtedly the bottleneck in this setup? How does this not end up in a chinese whisper game, especially considering how much LLMs infer, guess, and find edge cases and whatnot everywhere? I have two co worker, one is closer to my workflow, plans a lot, build one at a time, almost a duet with our company's LLM. Another one will take the conf room and voice mode over with his orchestrator, define all kind of things and full send it. One is a system engineer the other a web dev, but you get the idea.

I have looked at various attempt from people on github to implement these things, eg https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate; herdr itself; claude multi agent process. It has never worked out on my end, is it because of the complexity of the work or am I incompetent at delegating?

I understand the importance of mastering LLMs in this brave new world but to me it seems complicated to handle more than one at a time, especially if the problem is complex and requires reading/back and forth with it.

I'd appreciate resources of any kind to look deeper into it, or reading some of your work flows, good people of HN.

Cheers :)

2 points | by shiz92 2 hours ago

1 comments

  • scottfalconer 51 minutes ago
    I use voice mode a lot for product / architecture planning and dev - but the fundamentals are still the same. Have well defined requirements / specs / plans, understand the tradeoffs and edge cases before any real dev starts, have standards and tests checked by systems that the agent can't talk it's away around etc.

    I'm less concerned about the syntax of the code these days and focus more on the overall architecture.

    i.e. going on a walk with voice mode and saying "lets walk through all of the tests one-by-one, for each lets review what it does, why we need it, and how it covers something that could actually happen in the real world.