Lessons / Power

Subagents & parallelism

The biggest throughput ceiling for a power user is the single-threaded loop: ask, wait, ask, wait. Parallelism is how one person does the work of a team.

Instead of running tasks one after another, launch multiple agents at once — one to research, one to audit, one to draft — and synthesize when they all return. For writes, keep it to one agent per file (parallel writers collide); for reads, fan out as wide as you want.

Try it now

Take a task with independent parts and run them concurrently:

Launch separate agents in parallel: one to research X, one to audit Y, one to draft Z. Don't wait for each to finish before starting the next — run them concurrently and give me a synthesized result when they're all back.

You've got it when…

Independent work ran concurrently — not sequentially — and came back synthesized, not just concatenated. Wall-clock time dropped to the length of the slowest single task, not the sum of all of them.