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Agentic Systems
Multi-agent systems · Architecture · LLM
When a multi-agent system loses to a single agent
A multi-agent design looks convincing on a slide: a team of specialists instead of a lone worker. In production it regularly turns out slower, more expensive and less predictable than one agent with good tools. Here is where exactly the line runs.
AI agents · Automation · Architecture
AI agent: what it is and what turns a system into an agent
Almost anything with a language model in it gets called an agent — from a script with a prompt to a system that runs a process on its own. The difference is fundamental: it decides which tasks the system can be trusted with and what control it needs.