Six agent patterns every AI engineer should know, from chaining to orchestrator-workers
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-07-21
A long thread/article lays out six agent patterns for AI engineers: prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer, and a final pattern implied in the thread. It argues the field is moving away from single prompts toward loops and control flow, with each pattern matched to a different task shape and trade-off between accuracy, latency, and flexibility.
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