Questioning the Value of Fancy Architectures

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The paper questions the necessity of complex agent architectures by comparing them to simple baselines. It shows that state-of-the-art agent architectures do not outperform basic strategies in human evals. Additionally, these fancy architectures are not only more expensive but also yield similar results compared to basic strategies like warming. The research demonstrates through cost vs. performance analysis that expensive and complex architectures often underperform when compared to simpler alternatives.

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