Technique: Orchestrator-Workers Pattern
The Orchestrator pattern mimics how a senior architect delegates work to a team. One AI call acts as the “architect” — it analyzes a complex requirement, breaks it into subtasks, and defines the interface between them. In a production system, each subtask would be sent to a separate AI call (or specialized agent) for parallel execution, then results are assembled.
This is one of the most powerful patterns in AI agent architectures. It enables divide-and-conquer strategies for complex problems: code generation, research synthesis, content production pipelines, and multi-domain analysis. The orchestrator ensures coherence; the workers provide depth.
When to use: Large coding tasks, system design, comprehensive research, content production at scale, and any task where a single prompt would be too complex. If you find yourself writing a prompt longer than 500 words, consider the orchestrator pattern instead.