So with agents I think it’s about time that people start getting to understand how they are essentially functions if you do it right and they should be used as functions that are combined together through functions in the process of multi collaborative communicating agents the agents and the communications themselves should all be functions that include self-reflection from previous results that diminished on a sliding scale until the agents are completely optimized for the purpose they’re feeling at which point they can generally become workflows that do not require any tokens. The real key is that you make it so they drop nodes of their actions as they go that you can use within a drag-and-drop or json editable or workflow system that allows you to convert them easily into simply work flows that you can convert into macros with the ability to use llm logic or reasoning whenever a situation arises that it is still needed to minimize your tokenization cost and eliminated if possible.
Jochen for the situation you’re describing with lists here my favorite trick is to use a vision based model that you can establish a semantic layer with so that you can literally parse semantic concepts as opposed to specific listing items. To give you an idea it’s super fun to be able to say if a joke that is funnier than a scale of 1 to 10 out of 6 is told and this category on this forum then I want you to send that joke through the joke Improvement Pipeline and then repost it in this form with these pretext and you can essentially increase the level of enjoyment that people experience in their lives on a daily basis LOL