Third-party dispatches, not graded receipts
Simon Willison builds coding agent that delegates tasks to cheaper subagents
Willison demonstrated a workflow where Claude Code's Fable model uses its own judgment to spawn cheaper subagents for mechanical coding tasks to conserve expensive tokens.
“For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent”
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