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

Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast by Kaushik Gopal

Feb 17, 202600:26:38Technology

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 imp...

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