How are you managing the use of explicitly spawned subagents?
OpenAI Developer Community
May 21, 2026
Or in short - treat the agents as what they are: stupid little junior devs who master leet code stuff without experience
rafa3 I had bad experiences with those tests… at some point the agents started running matrix tests for modules and permission on every task which resulted in massive loss of speed.
I rather run teh tests manually like every other sprint. It is like in legacy development based on TDD - which was slow as well. And now with agents we can just tell the bots to add the tests as a nice to have and use them only once you have a golife and beyond. And honestly once you go online you should not use subagents anymore. You need a full review and another then for everything that goes online.
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