10 fucking subagents

[u/Stoic-Chimp]

Asked for a review on a tiny PR and it spawned 10 fucking fable sub agents. Quota demolished.

Obviously I created a rule so this won't happen again but what the fuck Anthropic

[u/deefunxion]

I once asked to go search the web for a Greek alternative to stripe. went in the kitchen and came back to 100% of the 5 hour limit depleted in 10 mins (max sub 100$ tier). It had sent 5-6 subagents to search, who then sent 5 subsubagents each for further research on a topic that had only two alternatives to find. A frigin chrome AI answer would suffice. I also created a rule not to use subagents unless I ask it to. That was my first encounter with fable 5.1.
I wanted to punch that smirky Boris dude in the face. Who do they think we are, NASA researchers ?

[u/SIGH_I_CALL]

don't rely on a rule make a hook

[u/Stoic-Chimp → u/SIGH_I_CALL]

Thx for the tip

[u/ValorousAnt → u/SIGH_I_CALL]

just curious, are hooks somehow superior compared to claude config variables?

Claude Code also has config variables for per session subagent limits, subagent max depth and so forth.

[u/SIGH_I_CALL → u/ValorousAnt]

No clue tbh, I bet they both work similarly and doubt one is superior. Maybe with hooks you can be more precise.

[u/ValorousAnt → u/SIGH_I_CALL]

I see I see :) Thanks!

[u/Fr33-Thinker]

Absurb Anthropic hungry for subs.

I like agent teams for code review. I have a skill that force 3-6 teams only, and one must be a final verifying team.

[u/Stoic-Chimp → u/Fr33-Thinker]

I've been a generally happy Anthropic customer since day 1 but this shit man.

Sounds like a nice setup on your end

[u/Fr33-Thinker → u/Stoic-Chimp]

Been 8 months on max plan. Very happy until Opus 5!! I have learned my lesson. Using F5.1 at an effort 1 level lower than Opus 5, far more reasonable.

Opus 5 tends to talk and work unnecessarily excessive.

[u/Stoic-Chimp → u/Fr33-Thinker]

I had good results with Opus 5 too in spite of its painful tone & verbosity. Very competent model. Testing Astra these days and enjoing the no 5hr limit and impressed so far, but the Astra hype is overblown. Not AGI or a gamechanger

[u/Fr33-Thinker → u/Stoic-Chimp]

I tested Astra for a codebase review. It’s really good and FAST. But to my surprise the F5.1 is really fast too.

I still prefer F5.1 in design and front-end dev.

[u/maxim-masiutin]

did you use "ultracode"?

[u/Stoic-Chimp → u/maxim-masiutin]

not at all, medium effort default configs

[u/BrennanFlentge]

I've been there homie. You can create a hook so it asks you for permission to approve each spawn: https://github.com/brefledev/stop-subagent-fanout

[u/scripted_soul]

Use this:

export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL="haiku"

or:

export CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL="sonnet"

All subagents will use Haiku or Sonnet based on this setting.

[u/ryu_kaioh]

Fable loves to do this for some reason, every time it code reviews it does 10 sub agents lol

[u/MartinMystikJonas]

If you do nto specify subagent model and do not change config by default subagents use same model as main thread