
305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them
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Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread.
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Resources & Documentation
Official Documentation
Agents, Modes, Subagents: official harness docs
- Claude Code Subagents
- Gemini CLI Subagents
- Opencode Subagents
- Cursor Subagents
- Antigravity Agent Modes
- AOE Scouting
Research Papers & Articles
- Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
- Deep-Research Agents Paper
- Post: GPT-5 System Card by Alex
Xu - Self-Driving Codebases Blog -
multi-agent systems making 1,000 commits/hour
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