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What about when claude code starts spawning sub-agents? it's pretty good about doing that now even if a user doesn't request it. Does this could as parallel inference?

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I haven't seen it do it by itself that much so far. Even then, a lot of the time is spent waiting for some shell command to complete, which isn't inference. I guess being able to do parallel inference is like having multiple cores in a cpu, you can get by without it by just sharing that single core, and having it just gives you a performance boost under certain circumstances

Interesting. For me it seems to be much more common that even basic requests start spinning up sub-agents. But I also routinely ask it to do this so maybe it's stored this as a preference somewhere deep in its bowels.

And yes, I agree. I find the experience better less for speed and more for context management. But it's far from necessary.

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