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aleqstoday at 5:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Indeed, I've been experimenting with agent workflows, for complicated tasks - where I essentially have a graph of agents with different roles/capabilities, including such things as breaking down complex tasks into simpler ones. There seems to be a point where a complex enough task is better performed by a group of cheaper agents/models than by one agent using one of the SOTA big models, in terms of both quality and cost.


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zozbot234today at 1:22 PM

The big SOTA models win in world knowledge, that's what all those parameters are for. But a huge fraction of agentic tasks is going to be plain clerical work that needs no special knowledge at all, a much simpler model can do them in a straightforward way.