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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development

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280 points zachwills | 2 comments | 09 Sep 25 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dutchCourage ◴[13 Sep 25 06:20 UTC] No.45229774[source]▶
That sounds crazy to me, Claude Code has so many limitations.

Last week I asked Claude Code to set up a Next.js project with internationalization. It tried to install a third party library instead of using the internationalization method recommended for the latest version of Next.js (using Next's middleware) and could not produce of functional version of the boilerplate site.

There are some specific cases where agentic AI does help me but I can't picture an agent running unchecked effectively in its current state.

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1. kobalsky ◴[13 Sep 25 23:13 UTC] No.45236053[source]▶
I have seen it doing incredible stuff. One shotted adding a feature that included modifications to a proprietary backoffice system, db schema updates, defining new api models, implementing changes on the backend and then on the frontend.

I've also seen seen it choking when tasked to add a simple result count on a search.

The short answer is, it's cheap to let it try.

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2. aabhay ◴[14 Sep 25 00:53 UTC] No.45236561[source]▶
Is it cheap? It adds up really quickly. One shot at trying to build an iteration of a simple python app (<1000 LOC tops) can cost between $1 and $5. And that’s a single attempt.

And this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg of what even a medium sized startup spends. This is not cheap in any way.