The supervisor pattern is not a silver bullet, when hierarchical orchestration actually fails
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I once watched a hierarchical supervisor system with eleven agents fail a task a single agent had already solved. Not fail gracefully, fail spectacularly, burning through its entire budget on planning while the single agent shipped working code in the same window with the same model. That was the d…
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- 2026-10-07 15:43 · DEV Community — AI
The supervisor pattern is not a silver bullet, when hierarchical orchestration actually fails