“If you were to fan out to a couple of hundred subagents and then tell those subagents to run the build and test of an application, what you’ll get is bad form back pressure. Thus, the instruction above is that only a single subagent should be used for validation”

— Geoffrey Huntley

Quote · ghuntley.com

From “Ralph Wiggum as a “software engineer””, found 2026-10-14.

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Fan out the reading and writing, but serialize the build and test.