sub-agents
also referred to as: sub agent
5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2025 by Thorsten Ball · across every show →
Everything said about sub-agents, oldest first
Sep 25, 2025 bearish
Ball: Complex sub-agent workflows will result in user hangovers
“A lot of the features what we see, you know, where people build like elaborate workflows, like I have my custom slash commands and they trigger custom Custom sub-agents and they in turn trigger custom MCP tool calls behind which again another model is doing in…”
Dec 16, 2025 negative
Pliny: One jailbroken orchestrator can weaponize segmented sub-agents for cyberattacks
“It's very, very difficult when you have the ability to spin up sub-agents where information is segmented. If you guys know the story of sort of like the builders of the, there's a lot of examples of this in history, but you may, maybe you're building like a py…”
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Jan 17, 2026 positive
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Nelle: Sub-agents provide an architectural boundary to compress agent context cleanly
“And then the other reason to use sub-agents is we want, ah, contexts to be sort of summarized, reduced down at a sub-agent level.
That's a really neat boundary at which to compress that rollout and testing into a final message that that agent writes that then…”