Subagents chew through tokens: single-threaded agents often win on cost
weswinder · x · 2026-09-13
Developer Wes Winder argues that subagents look great in theory but "absolutely chew through usage" in practice — for most tasks, a single-threaded conversation is the more cost-effective choice. The take echoes ongoing community skepticism about multi-agent orchestration: communication and duplicated-context overhead often outweigh the parallelism benefits.
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