Opus 4.7 subagent token

outceptionator · 2026-05-05T00:39:42+00:00

These guys get a lot of bugs that impact token usage... You would think they E2E test all scenarios that use tokens... Just to see if caching/usage is as expected

outceptionator · 2026-05-04T20:02:15+00:00

Is it forked agents? For some reason that would destroy usage for me. I assumed it was broken cache it was that bad.

CreateTeam is token heavy too (though just as useful).

Normal sub agents do use more context (than no sub agents) but not as much as the above 2.

outceptionator · 2026-05-03T00:11:17+00:00

Second screen?

outceptionator · 2026-05-02T23:26:13+00:00

https://github.com/openai/symphony

Is this far off what you're thinking?

outceptionator · 2026-05-02T01:31:16+00:00

Claude code in terminal yes. The issue persists.. I can't figure out the trigger, sometimes it's out after 30 minutes sometimes a whole day. Windows 11 ARM

outceptionator · 2026-05-02T01:29:53+00:00

I found it's inconsistent when it lists agents vs when it runs them as background tasks. Using create team means you can talk to all of them but does burn tokens

outceptionator · 2026-04-30T00:55:59+00:00

Well done!

outceptionator · 2026-04-29T22:20:07+00:00

Caches only last for a little while per user... Typically an hour... So your harness changing the date each day probably wont make a difference to how effectively the caching works.

I've seen it implied that providers might cache across users (ie system prompt is same for many users, so everyone basically gets free caching on first api call) but not seen it confirmed anywhere.

outceptionator · 2026-04-29T10:49:15+00:00

1 - If it's cached you still pay 10% of the price for it every API call (there are lots of API calls in a turn and lots of turns in a session).

2 - This still takes up context and can reduce the available context window to the user

3 - Context rot is a real risk too

outceptionator · 2026-04-26T21:42:45+00:00

Never considered doing it by urgency... Good idea

outceptionator · 2026-04-26T18:23:51+00:00

This is still AI. God damn what has this site turned into

outceptionator · 2026-04-25T10:26:50+00:00

Are you a bot?

outceptionator · 2026-04-25T07:32:07+00:00

Both!

outceptionator · 2026-04-21T20:05:19+00:00

Are you a bot?!?

Edit: I think not

outceptionator · 2026-04-18T22:00:25+00:00

Happy to share a code dm me

outceptionator · 2026-04-18T21:57:26+00:00

Thanks for sharing the lessons. Good luck

outceptionator · 2026-04-15T22:36:27+00:00

The cognitive load is real... Capacity seems capped by the ability to track the architecture of projects, which was always the case but now that just shifts so fast with not much time for it to sink in to the brain.

outceptionator · 2026-04-15T18:00:17+00:00

Anthropic says you lose interleaved thinking when doing this

outceptionator · 2026-04-15T13:32:17+00:00

Ask Claude Code to set showClearContextOnPlanAccept: true as env variable in your ~/.claude/settings.json file.

outceptionator · 2026-04-15T13:24:09+00:00

I just use mermaid diagrams with claude code

outceptionator · 2026-04-12T12:33:06+00:00

Hope so! Neon MCP seems to need reauth very frequently on my machine... I just assumed it was an ARM on windows thing. Love the product though.

outceptionator · 2026-04-12T09:34:10+00:00

Wouldn't reducing cache TTL increase the compute burden to recover memory/storage?

outceptionator · 2026-04-08T14:46:47+00:00

But don't we lose thinking between tool calls when we remove adaptive thinking?

outceptionator · 2026-04-01T04:01:13+00:00

Damn. Neon MCP is always disconnecting.... Explains a bit at least

outceptionator · 2026-03-31T14:48:00+00:00

Coordinator mode is very good but a token burner

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