M25.5 CONNECT THE MECHANISM
Coordinate several decision-makers without assuming independent judgment
Wayfarer splits a four-city trip across five agents. It finishes in less than half the time, uses 31% more tokens, and three agents "confirm" the same wrong fact. When is a team worth it?
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Lesson overview
Wayfarer splits a four-city trip across five agents. It finishes in less than half the time, uses 31% more tokens, and three agents "confirm" the same wrong fact. When is a team worth it?
What you’ll explore
- Multi-agent systems divide work and exchange information under a coordination protocol; communication cost, shared errors, conflict resolution, and ownership determine whether the group helps.
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AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation (Wu et al., 2023)Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach — authors’ materialsHow we built our multi-agent research system (Anthropic, June 2025)Don't Build Multi-Agents (Walden Yan, Cognition, June 2025)Suggest a correction
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