In theory. But in practice, in my experience, sub-agents increase cost.
Sub-agent tasks often have overlapping context after the point of dispatch. Example: you tell agent 1 to explore folder A and agent 2 to explore folder B, if they have the same structure a single agent might be able to discover what it's looking for faster in serial mode vs. parallel. And if not faster, likely with fewer tokens.
And as the orchestrator context grows, it also loses out on capturing the nuance from some of the sub-agent context. In theory they pass some of that back, but realistically things get missed, and you can't apply learnings to parallel runs like you can in series.
The latest frontier models are very good at taking the knowledge they've acquired during a session and applying it forward. Sub-agents make more sense in cases where the agent is dumb to begin with and can't make use of the context it learns from serial execution.
Plugged 3.5 Flash Lite into an existing agent harness that was previously using 3.1 Flash Lite and this shit just does not work. It's not following instructions and is not producing the correct tool calls.
Can anyone explain how you “win” the market of super intelligence? Particularly with open weights models now rivaling the frontier, it seems like a race to the bottom even if the prices don’t yet reflect that.
Most jobs, not all, can take place inside a city. If you build your cities densely, people can live and work within the city and have all their needs met without the need for a car (see: the great cities of the world)
If you design economic hubs properly, businesses can be located within reach of homes without the need for cars.
If you instead prioritize the need for, I don’t know, a monoculture lawn and separation from lower class people, then you’re choosing to build suburbs. Once a city has built enough suburbs, businesses become out of reach without the use of a car.
Like SF, you can pick streets in Vancouver and sell whatever story you want about the city. You won't find many film cameras on East Hastings unless it's a documentary.
They actually do mind, which is why they don’t do it. Did you forget the reality of the situation?
They mind because they are completely outnumbered. Policing only works if you can point out a small minority and say “these people are causing harm to the majority of us”. With something like fireworks (or cannabis protests in many places) the police are severely outnumbered and they don’t have enough room
in their jails anyway.
A$AP Rocky did it for a music video. Granted, it was only used for the editing process and not the final video, but it still presents some interesting opportunities, though it doesn't really look real so the applications may be limited.