Yes
going straight with a single prompt in Claude Code got to a similar good result, faster and consuming 0.3$
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consuming about 12$ ... consuming 0.3$
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Helped: Using a single prompt directly instead of a hierarchy of agents.
Got in the way: Multi-agent council consumed significantly more cost and time.
… They council of agents got to a very good result, consuming about 12$, mostly using Opus 4.6. To our surprise, going straight with a single prompt in Claude Code got to a similar good result, faster and consuming 0.3$ and mostly using Haiku. This surely deserves more investigation, but our assumption / hypothesis so far is that coordination and communication between agents has a remarkable cost. …