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ArchitectureFebruary 20, 20266 min read
Five specialized agents beat one general-purpose model: lessons from building cmodl
We tried the obvious approach first — one powerful model that does everything. Here's what we learned when we abandoned it in favor of five narrow specialists.
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Alex Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
Alex previously led platform engineering at a Series C infrastructure company. Co-founded cmodl after spending too many nights debugging AI outputs that looked right but deployed wrong.