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I burned $20 in 3 minutes in API usage, as it ran 2 sub-agents which themselves spun up 5 more each
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burned $20 in 3 minutes in API usage
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Helped: Using Haiku for to-the-point answers without steering away.
Got in the way: Independent agent review burned $20 in 3 minutes with redundant sub-agents.
… I myself asked Claude code recently to review a somewhat large PR, to see what it would find. I didn't expect much, but also didn't quite realize how the model would interpret my request; I burned $20 in 3 minutes in API usage, as it ran 2 sub-agents which themselves spun up 5 more each. Most sub-agents were manually checking for things clang-tidy would catch without actually calling clang-tidy. …