[xhrpost]

For a while everyone was saying sub agents is how you save tokens, use lower quality models with limited context to do simple parts of the job after a smart planning agent has put it all in place. Is that no longer true or is this just the result of sub agent being used at the wrong time?

[alansaber]

No, you can definitely configure low cost search and apply subagents. CC and Codex do not. Not sure if this is to improve the reliability of their subagents, or just a play to increase user consumption.

[drob518]

Well, Anthropic and OpenAI make money selling tokens, so…