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
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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…”
Thorsten Ball Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 35:22 Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Dec 16, 2025 negative
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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…”
Pliny the Liberator Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 25:14 ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Dec 31, 2025 positive
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Nina Lopatina: Imposing turn limits on sub-agents is critical for reliability
“Having turn limits and limits on the sub-agents checking and validating their work is super important.”
Nina Lopatina Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 6:20 [State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
Jan 17, 2026 positive
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Reggio: Multi-turn agent interaction beats treating sub-agents as single tool calls
“There's actually a lot of value in having like multi-turn conversations from like the orchestrator or the assistant to like the sub agent, whereas like, you know, a tool call is basically just like one RPC.”
James Reggio Jan 17, 2026 ▶ 20:36 Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
Mar 6, 2026 positive
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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…”
Jonas Nelle Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 47:18 Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
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