http://programmer.ie/tags/shared-memory/ Recent content in Shared Memory on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us http://programmer.ie/books/agent-architectures/06-chapter/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://programmer.ie/books/agent-architectures/06-chapter/ <p>The previous chapters built up one agentic workflow: roles, tools, memory, reflection, revision, and versioning. This chapter changes scale.</p> <p>An agent-based system is not one large assistant with a bigger prompt. It is a collection of components that divide responsibility, communicate through explicit channels, use shared or separate state, and preserve enough identity that you can tell which part did what.</p> <p>The design question is:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>Which responsibilities belong together, </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>which should be separated, </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>and how should the separated parts coordinate? </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Architecture begins when those boundaries have to be chosen deliberately.</p>