Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast
Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

17 February 2026 26:38 Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza

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Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread.

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Show Notes

Resources & Documentation

Official Documentation

Agents, Modes, Subagents: official harness docs

  • Claude Code Subagents
  • Gemini CLI Subagents
  • Opencode Subagents
  • Cursor Subagents
  • Antigravity Agent Modes
  • AOE Scouting

Research Papers & Articles

  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
  • Deep-Research Agents Paper
  • Post: GPT-5 System Card by Alex
    Xu
  • Self-Driving Codebases Blog -
    multi-agent systems making 1,000 commits/hour

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