Redesign by watching Claude Code, then pull the deterministic part out
From Why We Killed Our Multi-Agent Pipeline — Subbiah Sethuraman and Abhilash Asokan, ZS Associates · ≈6:27
“So, what was happening is the agent was looking at data and deciding on a signal. Sometimes it applied some statistical methods. Sometimes it barely look at the data and say this is a signal. Sometimes it's actually a signal. Sometimes it's a noise. This is something we don't want an agent to do. This is a completely deterministic workflow.”
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“So, we built a pure deterministic workflow with different statistical methods. We put guardrails. We put thresholds. We put prioritization. Everything happened before the agent even kick starts.”
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“The moment a signal comes to the queue, the agent wakes up. So, the agent's job is to investigate, not to identify.”
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“What we removed is, do we need distributed reasoning? We didn't but the judgment to be distributed between agents. That we wanted to consolidate to a single agent.”
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“You can get back the uh results back, not the reasoning or the judgment. That is still controlled by the by the main agent, but the investigation and a part of it we did we're delegating it to a sub-agent.”
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- A reusable method: instead of redesigning the topology on paper, give Claude Code bash plus the database on a real task, observe it, and move the statistically-decidable steps into a deterministic pre-agent pipeline that queues work.
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