Teams experiment: cheap models for subagents, top model only on the primary agent
cramforce · x · 2026-11-05
thdxr shared that his team is experimenting this week with switching all subagents to cheaper DeepSeek models while reserving the top model (Opus) only for the primary subagent. cramforce reposted endorsing it as his own approach — a common agent cost-optimization pattern: delegate high-frequency subtasks to cheap models and invoke the flagship model only at key decision points.
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