Comment by bob1029

I find depth to be far more interesting than breadth with these models.

Descending into a problem space recursively won't necessarily find the best solution, but it's going to tend to find some solution faster than going wide across a swarm of agents. Theoretically it's exponentially faster to have one symbolically recursive agent than to have any number of parallel agents.

I think agent swarm stuff sucks for complex multi-step problems because it's mostly a form of BFS. It never actually gets to a good solution because it's searching too wide and no one can afford to wait for it to strip mine down to something valuable.