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Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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How long before we hire psychiatrists instead of engineers to debug AI

Well, we could start with some ELIZA instances.

I see that you feel we could start with some ELIZA instances. Can you tell me more about that?

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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So everything claude-flow¹ already does but worse (I guess?). ¹ https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

That guy doesn't even understand how his own software works. Is anyone actually using this thing and putting their code into production?

It's extreme dogfooding where he is making a mashed potato volcano where Claude agents are the potatoes and your sanity is the gravy.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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I've made a few attempts at manually doing this w/ mcp and took a brief look at "claude swarm" https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm - but in the short time I spent on it I wasn't having much success - admittedly I probably went a little too far into the "build an entire org chart of agents" territory the main problem I have is that the agents just aren't used For example, I set up a code reviewer agent today and t…

Roo code does this really well with their orchestration mode, there’s probably a way to have a claude.md to do this as well. The only issue with roo is it’s “single threaded” but you do get the specific loaded context and rules for a specific task which is really nice.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Has CC become much stupider in recent weeks, or is it me? Any anecdata out there?

I don’t know about stupider, but definitely less reliable/available A couple days ago I was getting so many api errors/timeouts I decided to upgrade from the $20 to the $100 plan (as I was also regularly hitting rate limits as well) It seemed to fix the issue immediately. But today, the errors came back for about half an hour

Their status page for the week is rough. They’re down to 98% uptime.

Hopefully they work out whatever issue is going on.

https://status.anthropic.com/

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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So everything claude-flow¹ already does but worse (I guess?). ¹ https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

> IMPORTANT: Claude Code must be installed first: > [...] > # 2. Activate Claude Code with permissions > claude --dangerously-skip-permissions Bypassing all permissions and connecting with MCPs, can't wait for "Claude flow deleted all my files and leaked my CI credentials" blog post

I would like a simple tool to run Claude in a container with only read/write access to provided folders.

I’ve set it up bespoke but the auth flow gets broken.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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So everything claude-flow¹ already does but worse (I guess?). ¹ https://github.com/ruvnet/claude-flow

Ruv (of Claude Flow) seems to like the new Claude Agents a lot, and already is leveraging them in Claude Flow. He waxes positively on the topic here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reuvencohen_spent-the-afterno...

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IMPORTANT: Claude Code must be installed first: > [...] > # 2. Activate Claude Code with permissions > claude --dangerously-skip-permissions Bypassing all permissions and connecting with MCPs, can't wait for "Claude flow deleted all my files and leaked my CI credentials" blog post

I would like a simple tool to run Claude in a container with only read/write access to provided folders. I’ve set it up bespoke but the auth flow gets broken.

Have you considered asking Claude code to write this for you?

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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One nice realization I had when using a similar feature in roo:

You don't need a full agent library to write LLM workflows.

Rather: A general purpose agent with a custom addition to the system prompt can be instructed to call other such agents.

(Of course explicitly mamaging everything is the better choice depending on your business case. But i think it would be always cheaper to at least build a prototype using this method.)

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

People speculate somewhat seriously that Claude (especially given its French name) picked up at some point that you aren't supposed to work as hard in July and August.

How long before we hire psychiatrists instead of engineers to debug AI

To be frank psychiatrists, being MDs, would likely prescribe medication and I’m not sure how that would help. As a licensed psychologist I have ideas on how to debug AI though.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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I've made a few attempts at manually doing this w/ mcp and took a brief look at "claude swarm" https://github.com/parruda/claude-swarm - but in the short time I spent on it I wasn't having much success - admittedly I probably went a little too far into the "build an entire org chart of agents" territory the main problem I have is that the agents just aren't used For example, I set up a code reviewer agent today and t…

the same problem with mcp. as well as claude md. most of the time they aren't used when it would be appropriate. what's the point of this agents and standards when you can't make them reliably being used by your model..
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