Told Claude to hit 15% complexity, it spawned 10 subagents and burned 30 hours
banteg · x · 2026-10-06
Developer banteg asked Claude to reduce a 10% complexity task to 15%, returning 3 hours later to find 20.13%. Claude had split work across 10 subagents, each overshooting its chunk — roughly 30 hours of compute. 'Anti-lazy Claude.'
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