Antfarm Patterns: Orchestrating Specialized Agent Teams for Compound Engineering
Compound engineering is an AI-driven software development methodology where each task, bug fix, or pull request feeds into a learning loop to help AI improve over time. While compound engineering promises productivity gains, single AI agents often fail due to context degradation and a lack of specialized AI agents, such as planners, developers, and verifiers, each with fresh context and clear handoffs. Compound engineering promises productivity gains of 300-700%, but most teams struggle to actually achieve them. The secret? Building orchestrated AI agent teams where each agent has a specific role, fresh context, and clear handoffs. Read More