305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread.Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.Show NotesResources & DocumentationOfficial DocumentationAgents, Modes, Subagents: official harness docsClaude Code SubagentsGemini CLI SubagentsOpencode SubagentsCursor SubagentsAntigravity Agent ModesAOE ScoutingResearch Papers & ArticlesIntroducing Claude Opus 4.5Deep-Research Agents PaperPost: GPT-5 System Card by AlexXuSelf-Driving Codebases Blog -multi-agent systems making 1,000 commits/hourGet in touchWe'd love to hear from you. Email is thebest way to reach us or you can check our contact page for otherways.We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd liketo hear more on.Contact usNewsletterYoutubeWebsiteCo-hosts:Kaushik GopalIury Souza[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting withEp. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behindour new direction.