Sub Agents Changed Architecture
Monolithic agents are brittle. Hierarchical delegation might be how complex AI systems should work.
Monolithic agent architectures don't scale. You need hierarchies and delegation or everything falls apart.
A single agent trying to do everything is a recipe for failure. Too much context needed. Too many edge cases. Too many ways to break. It's like writing one massive function instead of modular code.
Breaking agents into specialized sub agents changes everything. A master agent that understands goals. Specialist agents that execute specific tasks. Communication through clean interfaces. The system becomes robust through modularity.
The delegation patterns that emerge are beautiful. High level planning flowing down. Results bubbling up. Specialists collaborating on complex tasks. Error handling through redundancy.
This mirrors how human organizations scale. Specialization and delegation. Hierarchies emerging from efficiency needs. The same patterns appearing in artificial systems.
I'm convinced the future isn't one giant AGI but millions of specialized agents coordinating. More resilient, more understandable, more controllable.