| Challenge: | Recent work has automated the design of agentic systems using meta-agents . authors examine three key challenges in a common class of meta-gents. |
| Approach: | They examine how meta-agents learn across iterations and show performance improves with evolutionary approach. |
| Outcome: | The proposed meta-agents perform worse when iterating on multiple agents than human-designed agents. |
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