→ A GERMAN DEVELOPER BUILT THIS OVER A WEEKEND
→ 18 AGENTS RUNNING IN PARALLEL
→ WHAT USED TO TAKE DAYS NOW TAKES MINUTES
0:00 what a linear agent actually is
0:30 why the shape of work is a graph
1:00 how claude spawns a fleet of subagents
1:30 the topology that changes everything
i spent 2 years building agents as straight lines step one step two step three each waiting politely for the last to finish before it starts
then i saw claude code run 18 agents in parallel all at once each checking a different route file each returning validated JSON and a synthesis agent waiting at the barrier for all 18 to finish
what used to take hours finished in minutes and the cost was a fraction because boring nodes ran on cheap models while only the judgment node used the expensive one
the shape of the work was always a graph i just didn't know how to draw it
fan out where work is independent gate the edges where confidence matters tier the models where judgment doesn't and let claude write the orchestration script itself
microsoft proved this architecture works 18% better accuracy 85% lower token costs most developers will keep queueing steps in a line while the ones who learn to draw the graph run a fleet and never notice the ceiling the rest are stuck under
save this before it gets buried