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I will give you an example I heard from an acquaintance yesterday - this person is very smart but not strictly “technical”.

He is building a trading automation for personal use. In his design he gets a message on whatsapp/signal/telegram and approves/rejects the trade suggestion.

To define specifications for this, he defined multiple agents (a quant, a data scientist, a principal engineer, and trading experts - “warren buffett”, “ray dalio”) and let the agents run until they reached a consensus on what the design should be. He said this ran for a couple of hours (so not strictly overnight) after he went to sleep; in the morning he read and amended the output (10s of pages equivalent) and let it build.

This is not a strictly-defined coding task, but there are now many examples of emerging patterns where you have multiple agents supporting each other, running tasks in parallel, correcting/criticising/challenging each other, until some definition of “done” has been satisfied.

That said, personally my usage is much like yours - I run agents one at a time and closely monitor output before proceeding, to avoid finding a clusterfuck of bad choices built on top of each other. So you are not alone my friend :-)

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