Intuitively makes sense, but in my experience, a more realistic workflow is using the main agent to sub-agent delegation pattern instead of straight 7x-ing token costs.<p>By delegating to sub agents (eg for brainstorming or review), you can break out of local maxima while not using quite as many more tokens.<p>Additionally, when doing any sort of complex task, I do research -> plan -> implement -> review, clearing context after each stage. In that case, would I want to make 7x research docs, 7x plans, etc.? probably not. Instead, a more prudent use of tokens might be to have Claude do research+planning, and have Codex do a review of that plan prior to implementation.
> straight 7x-ing token costs<p>You are probably right, but my work pays for as many tokens as I want, which opens up a bunch of tactics that otherwise would be untenable.<p>I stick with sub-agent approaches outside of work for this reason though, which is more than fair a point