Comment by jswny
20 hours ago
That’s just spawning multiple parallel explore agents instructed to look at different things, and then compiling results
That’s a pretty basic functionality in Claude code
20 hours ago
That’s just spawning multiple parallel explore agents instructed to look at different things, and then compiling results
That’s a pretty basic functionality in Claude code
Sounds like I should probably switch to claude code cli. Thanks for the info. :)
I added tests to an old project a few days ago. I spent a while to carefully spec everything out, and there was a lot of tedious work. Aiming for 70% coverage meant that a few thousand unit tests were needed.
I wrote up a technical plan with Claude code and I was about to set it to work when I thought, hang on, this would be very easy to split into separate work, let's try this subagent thing.
So I asked Claude to split it up into non- overlapping pieces and send out as many agents as it could to work on each piece.
I expected 3 or 4. It sent out 26 subagents. Drudge work that I estimate would have optimistically taken me several months was done in about 20 minutes. Crazy.
Of course it still did take me a couple of days to go through everything and feel confident that the tests were doing their job properly. Asking Claude to review separate sections carefully helped a lot there too. I'm pretty confident that the tests I ended up with were as good as what I would have written.
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