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NEW POST Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that what really matters is protecting the orchestrator's context. martinfowler.com/articles/orc...

martinfowler.comThe Orchestrator's TaxUse subagents to protect the orchestrator's working memory, not just to save time or run tasks in parallel.

28/7/26, 1:15 pm0 reposts13 likes

Philip Ward

@philipmward.bsky.social

28 July

This matches what I measured. Putting one fat tool payload behind a throwaway extraction subagent cut my executor's billable tokens about 37% (before/after, n=1). The saving wasn't parallelism. It was that the orchestrator only ever saw the conclusion, never the payload.