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

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

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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.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show NotesResources & DocumentationOfficial 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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Co-hosts:

Kaushik Gopal
Iury Souza

[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
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