“I use multi-agent a lot. … I actually built this protocol to let them message each other to make sure that you can coordinate and don't overlap. So what happened after that is that my task doesn't get done at all. It turns out one agent started forwarding tasks to the other agent. And then the agents forward that to another agent and then none of them do the work.”
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During a panel discussion of multi-agent systems, she described her own experiment in getting several coding agents to coordinate on one task. She then asked the panel how to make an agent recognize that a task is its own to do.
…like is this like one orchestrator that's spin up like multiple workers? Or like, do you have like different agents working in parallel? And then how do you, and if that's the case, and how do you deal with communications like across different agents working on the same kind of like complex task?
…and they have to do that in a social manner, which means communicating, so FIPA standards and things like that, everything kind of revolves around orchestration communication. So I have different protocols for communication, different architectures for orchestration, a lot of work on just this too.
Yeah, so I'm very interested in like agent to agent communications, right? So actually recently, I use multi-agent a lot. So I have some complex tasks. I would like get a bunch of agents to work together. So I actually built this protocol to let them like, okay, when you start working on a task, it's a part of a big system. So like other agents working on the same task, so we can message them to make sure that you guys go, like you can coordinate and like don't overlap. So what happened after that is that like my…
You try, you don't do it. You know, you try to do that. Because the thing is, depending on how you're tackling problems, for example, one of the simplest ways of doing that is using a blackboard kind of messaging to see what everyone's doing. So they're just posting backs and I have the shared…
No, it's a very hard problem. I'm wondering, like, if any of you, like, I'm supposed to hear from here and Daniel, like, have you used the box orchestrations ability of different models? First of all, like for in cloud or in codecs where you can ask an agent, okay, spin up my workers to do this…
I haven't done that extensively. Maybe, Daniel.