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Claude recursive subagents burning hundreds in extra tokens

Anthropic enabled subagents to launch their own subagents, leading to reports that ed3d-plugins are costing users hundreds of dollars in extra API tokens due to uncontrolled subagent creation.

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did:plc:klhtmrnregub7we7h6jwiljm good news, everyone, anthropic gave subagents the ability to launch their own subagents and now people are reporting that ed3d-plugins are costing them hundreds of dollars in API tokens because models are farting subagents everywhere absolute clowns. just absolute careless clumsy clowns

2026-06-16T18:34:28.471Z

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