For larger tasks that I know are parallelizable, I just tell Claude to figure out which steps can be parallelized and then have it go nuts with sub-agents. I’ve had pretty good success with that.
I need to try this because I've never deliberately told it to, but I've had it do it on it's own before. Now I'm wondering if that project had instructions somewhere about that, which could it explain why it happened.
It sometimes does it on its own, but to get it to do so consistently, it needs to be told. Doubly so if you want it to split off more than one sub-agent.
This works great for refactors that touch a large number of files. You can knock out a refactor that might take 30 minutes, a persistent checklist, and possibly multiple conversations, and one-shot it in two minutes and a single prompt.
DanielAtDev|4 months ago
quintu5|4 months ago
This works great for refactors that touch a large number of files. You can knock out a refactor that might take 30 minutes, a persistent checklist, and possibly multiple conversations, and one-shot it in two minutes and a single prompt.