Building Better Agents

Last week, I reviewed two fascinating articles on building multi-agent systems. The first, from Anthropic, promotes a multi-agent approach, while the second, from Cognition Labs, argues against it. This video provides a concise summary of both perspectives, highlighting differing strategies for orchestrating complex tasks and the importance of contextual engineering in the process. Articles: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/built-multi-agent-research-system https://cognition.ai/blog/dont-build-multi-agents#principles-of-context-engineering Agent Videos: https://youtu.be/oRNblZ-NMSw?si=54tJMSXvbzFnjbyW https://youtu.be/Z8vTgJkwyA0?si=pZFf2cUXfw5tpLzp https://youtu.be/JEERoZQbG9k?si=Uc3hX9VoaG3oDK2U Website: https://engineerprompt.ai/ RAG Beyond Basics Course: https://prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag Let's Connect: 🦾 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB ☕ Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/promptengineering |🔴 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PromptEngineering 💼Consulting: https://calendly.com/engineerprompt/consulting-call 📧 Business Contact: engineerprompt@gmail.com Become Member: http://tinyurl.com/y5h28s6h 💻 Pre-configured localGPT VM: https://bit.ly/localGPT (use Code: PromptEngineering for 50% off). Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 Timestamps: 00:00 Who is Right? 01:40 Challenges in Multi-Agent Systems 03:38 Sequential Execution Approach 04:23 Context Engineering and Compression 06:22 Anthropic's Multi-Agent System 11:01 Practical Insights and Recommendations 11:58 Prompt Engineering and Tool Design 16:29 Evaluation and Metrics 22:03 Deployment and Execution Strategies