Subagents Have Become a Wallet Black Hole
pbaylies · x · 2026-07-10
The post mocks the "use subagents" advice in AGENTS.md, comparing it to an endless for(;;)fork() loop in programming. It jokes that agents will continuously spawn more subagents, eventually calling Claude, resulting in an absurd yet "very agentic" outcome.
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