Overview
The method is useful when:
- The problem has many plausible answers.
- The user wants broad ideation.
- A single response may miss rare but valuable options.
- The decision benefits from multiple analytical lenses.
- The user wants to filter obvious hallucinations through repeated independent reasoning.
- Time matters and parallel execution is available.
It is less useful when:
- The answer is a simple deterministic fact.
- The task is already tightly specified and has one technical solution.
- The cost of multiple agents exceeds the value of broader exploration.
- The parent agent has no meaningful method for synthesizing the results.
The quality of the final answer depends heavily on the synthesis. Ten unorganized responses are not a consensus system. The parent must compare, classify, and explain.