Meta describes thin orchestrator pattern for its data pipeline AI agents
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Meta says it built a 1,300-line orchestrator that routes more than 20 workflows to 14 specialized AI agents and performs no domain work itself.
The company calls this design the thin orchestrator pattern, in which the router handles sequencing and reliability checks while specialists make every domain decision.
Meta reports that preparing configuration for a new column fell from three to four days by hand, and from about a day with its earlier system to under an hour. It also says about two-thirds of the system's changes land without significant human edits. These figures come from Meta's own engineering post and have not been independently verified.
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AIMeta says it built a 1,300-line orchestrator that routes 20+ workflows to 14 specialized AI agents and performs no domain work itself. The company reports that configuration prep for a new column dropped from three to four days by hand, and about a day with its earlier system, to under an hour. It also says about two-thirds of the system's changes land without significant human edits.
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