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title: "Comment by Kartik N V J K on \"Start Deterministic: Design Principles for Routers and Orchestrators in Multi-Agent Systems\" | Hashnode"
description: "Starting deterministic is advice I wish I had taken sooner: a rules-based router is far easier to debug than a model deciding every hop. I only reach for an LLM"
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Comment [Start Deterministic: Design Principles for Routers and Orchestrators in Multi-Agent Systems](https://hashnode.com/posts/start-deterministic-design-principles-for-routers-and-orchestrators-in-multi-agent-systems/6a7bd956d7f777cb689cf21f)

[Kartik N V J K](https://hashnode.com/@kartik-nvj)

[Aug 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/start-deterministic-design-principles-for-routers-and-orchestrators-in-multi-agent-systems/6a7bd956d7f777cb689cf21f/comment/6a88a2185f4e7d6150a533eb)

Starting deterministic is advice I wish I had taken sooner: a rules-based router is far easier to debug than a model deciding every hop. I only reach for an LLM router when the branching genuinely cannot be enumerated. Where did you draw the line between deterministic routing and letting the model decide?