[TacticalCoder]

> ... but i have to say i'm not super shocked or surprised. simply from the perspective of: i don't think subagents are super great to use anymore

The author of the pi.dev minimal harness doesn't like subagents. It's interesting to see that now Anthropic hardcodes instructions trying to steer away from subagents.

It could be time for those still believing in those to ponder why that is.

[cyanydeez]

subagents are only useful if the primary agent can construct a strong direction and scoped to a specific change. It keeps the context bloat in the main thread to a minimum but lets the agent flex it's need to re-read things.

A proper harness will learn how to provide better context, existing tool calls, etc and then it's not so wasteful.

Working on a local LLM, subagents are part of how to extend the useful context of the main agent. The other is compaction. Used together, we can get int 1M tokens with only running between 50-85k context.

[DangitBobby]

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