Stop using random multi-agent topologies: how to audit wasted subagent delegation
keyanzhang · x · 2026-09-09
ah20im warns against forcing multi-agent orchestrator/worker topologies without understanding the tradeoffs — it burns through usage limits and yields worse results; a single agent like Astra handles most tasks fine.
keyanzhang adds a concrete audit method: open a side chat to review your usage patterns. Repeatedly messaging the same subagent grows context and wastes input tokens even with caching; if the main agent keeps asking a subagent to call a tool, the delegation is unnecessary — just call it directly.
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