#comparison
Every post tagged "comparison".
48 posts · showing 11–20
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Your Two Reviewer Agents Disagree. Who Breaks the Tie?
Running the same document past two agents is easy. Deciding what happens when they return opposite verdicts is the part most multi-agent designs quietly leave undefined — and the default resolution is usually the worst one available.
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One Worker Pool or Two? Separating Fast Agent Runs From Slow Ones
A handful of long research runs can starve hundreds of eight-second ticket replies without a single error firing. The fix isn't more workers — it's deciding, at admission, which lane a run belongs in.
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Blackboard or Mailbox: How Should Three Agents Share What They Learn?
Two agents discover the same fact; a third contradicts both and nobody notices. The shape of your shared state — a common board or point-to-point messages — decides which of those happens.
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Map-Reduce or Sequential Refine? How an Agent Should Read 400 Pages
Chunking 400 pages of contracts forces a choice most teams make by accident. One shape quietly drops evidence as it goes; the other can never spot a conflict between two documents — and the fix is not the pattern, it's what the map step returns.
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Draining a Data Backlog: Should the Agent Batch Rows or Take Them One at a Time?
The ratio of preamble tokens to row tokens decides whether chunking a backlog saves an order of magnitude or nothing at all — and it's the alignment, retry amplification and blast radius that decide whether you should anyway.
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Do You Need an Agent Framework? Write the 40-Line Loop First
The agent loop is shorter than the quickstart for the framework that hides it. Write it once — then you can tell which framework features you actually need and which ones you'd be adopting on faith.
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What Crosses the Handoff: Transcript, Summary, or Contract?
A triage agent spends eleven tool calls finding the bug, then hands off. Passing the transcript ships its dead ends; passing a summary strips the uncertainty. What a typed handoff contract gets right — and the one field teams always forget.
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Where Should the Agent Loop Live? Framework, Job Queue, or Workflow Engine
The choice isn't about which framework has the nicer API. It's about what a crash at step six costs — and durable execution engines carry a constraint that fights the way agents are written.
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Should Your Agent Remember That, or Just Look It Up Again?
Two questions sort every fact an agent encounters into "write it down" or "fetch it fresh" — and getting the sort wrong is how an assistant ends up confidently quoting a meeting that moved last week.
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Handing an Agent a PDF: Three Paths Into the Context
A PDF never enters a context window — something derived from it does. The counterparty name right and the date wrong usually means the document took the wrong path in.