alt Hacker NewsInstead of compaction, I very aggressively do everything with teams of subagents. The main agent keeps the high level context, and all of the nitty gritty detail and code details not needed by the main agent never even make it into the context.
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ljm • last Sunday at 3:16 PM
How does that work out in terms of usage? I imagine that, unless you're on the highest tier subscription or have a no expense spared approach to agentic coding, then you're going to hit a wall pretty fast.
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This used to be really effective and cheap, now it lights my quota on fire, even after I fix the config and restore smaller subagents instead of like-agents
Multiple (slow) conversations seems to be the efficient path for me the past week or so