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Limiting Critic Agent Context to Avoid Groupthink
From Anthropic's CCA Exam as a Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley · ≈13:48
“there's a tendency to have group think. And all the agents seem to kind of devolve into one idea.”
“I didn't think about the pizza analogy, but yes.”
“Every agent gets its own slice, and and it it should come through.”
What’s in it
- Explains a 'critic' sub-agent pattern for reviewing agent outputs
- Shows why isolating agents prevents AI groupthink
- Uses a pizza-party analogy to illustrate agent conformity bias
Clip transcript
Here's an example of a specialized sub agents. You're giving it So, this would be the critic. So, let's say you've run some stuff. Now, you want to get an agent to look at what's happened. What you want to do is just give it what it needs to solve that critic problem. I'm only giving it here the we're passing it the claim and the evidence. So, this is your claim is sort of how we're going to solve the problem. Here's Here's the evidence, but we're not giving it the the thought processes that went in to creating this claim. Why? When you When you get a bunch of agents together collaborating and talking to each other, there's a tendency to have group think. And all the agents seem to kind of devolve into one idea. I mean, it's it's like, you know, you're in a group, you know, you're at a party, and everybody wants pizza except you, but then people talk you into you you know, you don't want to be uh you don't want to spoil the party, so you'll go along. And it seems that agents kind of work in the same way. So, you're going to return Basically, you're going to give each agent only a slice. I didn't think about the pizza analogy, but yes. Every agent gets its own slice, and and it it should come through. Okay.
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