#comparison
Every post tagged "comparison".
48 posts · showing 41–48
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Debate or Vote? Getting Real Value From Multiple Model Opinions
Voting harvests independent error; debate harvests challenge. Pick wrong and you multiply your token bill for agreement you'd have had from a single call — and the disagreement, the part worth paying for, gets logged away.
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Build or Buy the Eval Harness? What Each Choice Locks In
Teams buy an eval platform and keep their own scripts anyway. The reason is deterministic replay — it hooks into your dispatch layer, which is the one part no vendor can own.
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One Search Tool or Five? Getting Tool Granularity Right
Five narrow search tools or one with filters? The choice doesn't remove errors, it relocates them — and one of the two places is much cheaper to defend.
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Prompt, Tool, or Code? Where Each Piece of Logic Belongs
A rule the agent keeps breaking usually isn't a prompting failure — it's deterministic logic filed under "advice." Two questions place any behavior in the right one of three homes.
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Chain, Blackboard, or Broadcast? Three Ways Agents Share State
Chains lose the evidence, blackboards fight over it, broadcasts drown in it. Pick by which failure your task can absorb — and log provenance from day one or debugging becomes guesswork.
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Framework or Plain Loop? Four Questions That Actually Decide It
The core agent loop is under a hundred lines — that's never what a framework saves you. Four situational questions decide it, and the one about 3am debugging should carry the most weight.
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Trim, Summarize, or Retrieve? Three Ways to Survive a Long Agent Run
Trimming loses the oldest information, summarizing loses specificity, retrieval loses whatever the query missed. Which loss your run can survive is the whole decision — plus one rule that prevents most long-run failures.
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The Supervisor That Became a Bottleneck: When Not to Add a Second Agent
Splitting a task across agents adds a boundary, and every boundary quietly drops context. Here's the test for whether your second agent is buying isolation or just paying double for a worse answer.