Running more than 2 sub-agents in parallel is wasted tokens, dev warns
ALEXEIMARTOV · x · 2026-09-16
A developer asks whether parallelizable work (e.g. 100 identical tasks across 3 sol lanes with Astra medium) justifies running many sub-agents. The reply offers a practical rule of thumb: running more than 2 sub-agents at once almost certainly burns tokens for zero quality gain, because agents don't trust each other enough to skip double-checking each other's output, leading to redundant verification overhead. A useful signal for agent orchestration: parallelism has a quality ceiling.
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