Parallel vs sequential agents — CCA-F Exam Prep

L2.24|Parallel vs sequential agents

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Real story

A kitchen during a dinner rush. Left side: a chef making a salad, a steak, and a dessert one after another -- clock shows 45 minutes. Right side: three chefs each making one dish simultaneously -- clock shows 15 minutes. Same three dishes. One-third the time.

Three dishes. One kitchen. Two very different timelines.

A restaurant gets an order: salad, steak, dessert. Chef A makes the salad, then the steak, then the dessert. 45 minutes. The customer leaves a one-star review.

The same restaurant, different night. Three chefs. One makes the salad. One grills the steak. One preps the dessert. 15 minutes. Five-star review.

But the next order is a steak with a pan sauce made from the steak drippings. Now the sauce DEPENDS on the steak finishing first. Three chefs can't help -- the sauce chef has to wait.

Independent tasks fan out. Dependent tasks chain. This decision changes everything.