Agents Gonna Agent: Deterministic Orchestration for Systems You Can't Predict
A friend of mine runs disaster relief for a major humanitarian organization. He can evaluate a disaster, identify affected populations, calculate required resources, and coordinate a response faster than anyone else in the field. FEMA calls him. The Red Cross calls him. He does it all on a legal pad. If he gets hit by a bus tomorrow, that knowledge is gone. This is the bus factor. We know how to solve it for code. We version control, we document, we onboard. We've never been able to solve it for expertise. Until agents.
But every call to an LLM is a roll of the dice. One agent is manageable. Deploy several, and 40% of multi-agent pilots fail within six months of production. Not because agents break. Because correct agents interact in ways nobody planned for. The fix isn't better prompts or bigger models. It's the orchestration layer.
In this session I'll show you how durable orchestration wraps agents that are fundamentally unpredictable with infrastructure that is fundamentally reliable. The agents reason freely. The infrastructure provides the determinism. You'll leave with a pattern you can apply to any multi-agent system you're building today, and a new way to think about what it means to make expertise survive the bus.
