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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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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?

Not only are people using them, they are building startups based on them. And then selling said startups.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

#42
post #36

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How have you disproved the hypothesis that it recently got dumber and it just happens to be summer?

Clearly, it compared performance to last summer (Just to be clear, I have no idea what on this thread to take seriously and not and who is. I'm joking at least.)

That won't do it, though, you'd have to observe it being dumber on June 1 and smart again on September 1 for years.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

#43
post #14

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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

Robopsychologists, you say?

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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post #4

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

I think it is like with a gambling game that you get on hot and cold streaks, runs based on chance.

The model feels like it has got stupid when you get on a cold streak after a hot hand.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

#45
post #37

Here my main problem with sub-agents WITHIN Claude Code. They don’t allow you to use other models. Let’s be honest it’s 99% Sonnet.

Great point, I've found Sonnet really can't be beat on many tasks, but increasingly finding Gemini-Pro and o3 handle the tough bugs and refactors best.

That's why I've been using agro to launch agents from each of the main LLM vendors and checking their results when I'm stuck: https://github.com/sutt/agro/blob/master/docs/index.md

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

#46
post #9

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Not for me. It gets worse when context is nearly full. I like to compact or clear context more often than it does automatically.

Do you do this via settings or just keep track of it and manually ask it to do it more often?

(Not the person you're responding to, but) It says how close it is to compacting in bottom right, once it's getting close at least (30% left or something?)

Whenever I see that I think about whether I can find a good point to compact or clear. I also just try to clear whenever it makes sense to avoid getting there and try to give smaller tasks that can be cleared after they're done when possible.

Oh, I guess one thing I do is sometimes have it write a file with what was done, if I'm not actually sure if I want to clear or might want to come back to it. I also sometimes do this rather than compact during a large task - document status and clear.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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> 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.

Claudebox is what I was playing with. You need to mount the oauth access token in as an env. It’s not some crazy vibe coded framework, just around 1k lines of shell helpers to set it up.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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It says they can be "fine tuned," but it looks like the agents are all using the same model with different system prompts? This would be more intriguing if they trained a debugger model from the ground up that could be used for the debugger agent. I suspect we'll get there eventually.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

#49
post #37

Here my main problem with sub-agents WITHIN Claude Code. They don’t allow you to use other models. Let’s be honest it’s 99% Sonnet.

I haven't used them yet but it says they can use MCPs. The only MCP server I use is zen-mcp-server for routing stuff to o3 and gemini.

Re: Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents

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It says they can be "fine tuned," but it looks like the agents are all using the same model with different system prompts? This would be more intriguing if they trained a debugger model from the ground up that could be used for the debugger agent. I suspect we'll get there eventually.

words have no meaning in LLM. agents, fine tuning, reasoning all have millions of definitions
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