Missions: Multi-Agent Systems That Ship for Days — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory
Summary
Everyone's building multi-agent systems, but nobody agrees on how. This talk proposes a taxonomy of five frontier multi-agent strategies and shows what happens when you compose them into a single arch
Transcript Excerpt
[music] >> Hi everyone. My name is Luke and my goal is that 20 minutes from now you'll be able to assemble agent teams that can complete tasks orders of magnitude harder than what you can complete with a single agent today. A little bit about me. So I come from a background in dev tools. About 2 and 1/2 years ago I started a project at Block which is where I was working at the time. And that project evolved into Goose. Goose is now one of the leading coding agents is open source and it's recently was was donated to the AI agentic AI Foundation. So it's been really cool to see. Now nowadays I work at Factory where I lead our core agent harness and Factory's mission is to bring autonomy to the entire software development life cycle. So I want to start off with a claim. The bottleneck in soft…