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The AI agent hype is real. AutoGPT, multi-agent frameworks, agent orchestrators with sci-fi names – they’re everywhere. But here’s what nobody’s saying: we’ve been solving these coordination problems for decades.
In this episode, we dissect the common AI agent orchestration patterns and trace them back to their software engineering roots. Sequential agents? That’s the Pipes and Filters pattern from Unix. Concurrent orchestration with voting? Welcome to MapReduce. Group chat managers? Meet the Mediator pattern from the Gang of Four book gathering dust on your shelf.
We walk through the…
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