alt Hacker NewsI recently asked Claude what was the best Discord bot library and it spawned 7 sub-agents and ran me completely out of usage in about 10 minutes. I think this won't be particularly helpful until we solve the problem of usage exploding like that.
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bcherny • today at 2:43 AM
It is surprising that Claude would use that many subagents, since we prompt Claude not to use subagents unless asked. You can verify this actually by intercepting the network traffic to see the system prompt.
It is also surprising that a few agents would cause you to run out of tokens that quickly.
1. Which model were you using?
2. Which plan are you using? Pro/Max/Ultra
3. Can you run /bug in that session and share the feedback id here? Happy to debug.
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beezlewax • today at 2:34 AM
Sounds pretty good for anthropic.
nightdeployboy • today at 3:28 AM
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Its easy to fix. I've run into the same issue on day one, thankfully I got the usage reset. Just tell your claude session to be 'head-orchestrator' and delegate to Sonnet or Opus rather than more Fable agents. The fable making fable thing also made my usage evaporate.
Also a custom mcp letting it call Sol 6.1 on high via codex for general workers has really helped me preserve Claude usage.
I have a heavy workload running right now with Fable head-orch + Opus x8-10 sub-orchs calling codex workers, and usage is really slow for the amount of work being done.