Agentic coding tool pro tip:
Remind your agentic tool of choice (Claude Code, Qwen Code, etc.) frequently about its own capabilities, to the point where you might want to set up a hook for it. The most common thing I remind Claude Code?
“You must use subagents and you can have up to 50 subagents running in parallel.”
It’s smart enough to know what tasks have dependencies and what don’t – and then deploy the correct number of agents in parallel to get work done as quickly as possible without losing quality.
If you’re working on non-code tasks? This is ESSENTIAL to getting things done quickly. For example, if you’re writing emails for a nurture campaign, there are no dependencies from one to the next as long as you’ve built a solid plan. For example, when I used an agentic tool to write some fiction, it was able to launch one agent per chapter because it was working from a master outline, and what would have taken 16 hours was done in 90 minutes.
But the trick is… the tools forget their own capabilities. They forget what’s available to them. So get in the habit of reminding them early and often what they have available.
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