[FAQ] Help with agent speed of designing and coding

Course

machine-learning-zoomcamp

Question

How to reduce time taken by the PM, Engineer, QA agent? Everything is so slow.

Answer

• Make sure your tasks are not too numerous. Group them logically (or ask the AI to). 2 is too few. 99 is too many and might get stuck to infinity
• While the Session 1 of the course focussed on a robust process, it might be overkill of simple projects. Prevent bloat and complexity by explicitly asking the AI to review against those criteria
• Ask your AI to review the tasks and issues, it might spot some logical loops, or anomalies in the process. Correcting those before starting can save your hours.
• Specifically ask the orchestrator to be a higher level LLM, while the doers are lower-tiers of LLM
• Give the AI orchestrator agent some monitoring and time-control guidance
• Ask the engineer (coding agent) to follow the lazy ponytail dev principles (https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail)
• Ask your AI to have a dry run and to monitor closely what the sub-agents are doing, it might surface further anomalies
• Once all the above "pass" then you may run the whole process with more confidence.

Checklist

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• The answer provides accurate, helpful information
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