Lesson 1339 of 1570
When Two Agents Are Better Than One Big One
Split a job into a planner agent and a worker agent.
Lesson map
What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2planner
- 3worker
- 4reviewer
Concept cluster
Terms to connect while reading
Section 1
The big idea
specialized agents with narrow tools beat one agent with everything
Some examples
- A planner that writes the spec
- A coder that implements one task
- A reviewer that checks the diff
Try it!
Open your favorite AI tool and try one of the examples above. Pick the one that matches what you are actually working on this week. Spend 10 minutes, no more. Notice what worked and what did not — that's the real lesson.
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