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Ai Agents

2 published stories filed under Ai Agents.

Pen-and-ink sketch of three parallel doorways with figures, one doorway has a question mark above it, a red START arrow points toward the middle

claude code April 24, 2026 2 min read

Context Laundering

The one use case where spawning a sub-agent always pays off. It is not parallelism. It is triage for your main context window.

We use the word parallelism when we talk about sub-agents. Most of the time we are not actually running in parallel. We are protecting the main context from heavy reading. That is the move.

Eli Wood

CEO, Black Flag Design

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Whiteboard sketch: one task branching into five arrows that tangle into a knot, with a small caution mark at the center.

claude code April 23, 2026 6 min read

The Sub-Agent Skill Trap

Spawning a sub-agent looks like the obvious move for any multi-step task. Half the time it is the wrong one, and the signals are quieter than you think.

Sub-agents feel like leverage: one call, many workers, results in parallel. But most of the time we reach for one, the work was never parallel to begin with. Here is how to spot the trap before you fall in.

Eli Wood

CEO, Black Flag Design

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