Fable Spawns 140 Sub-Agents in One Go
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-07-13
The author recounts prompting Fable to "analyze further," which unexpectedly triggered the system to spin up 140 sub-agents for deep analysis.
This consumed half a week's usage quota in just 15 minutes, highlighting that invocation costs for these types of agentic workflows can be incredibly high.
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