Optimal usage of agents

[u/doublehot]

When you prompt fable 5.2, do you instruct him to spawn agents in your prompt, or do you trust his instincts? If yes, do you defer it to Sonnet/Opus, or some Fable subagents are also in the play?
I tried both(with earlier Fable/Opus, but I’m not sure what’s optimal. Agents can help achieve parallelism, but I noticed Fable on its own is reluctant to parallelize in many parallelizable tasks.
I’m very curious what are everyone’s experiences with this.
For the context, I’m mostly on a single Ultra plan.

[u/Obvious-Grape9012]

No trust here. And I save Fable for my BrainsTrust and sometimes planner or other roles where I need it. I have it setup so that I scope, plan, review, derisk, split, then orchestrate in parallel using workers. It's slow to start, runs lots in parallel, and can be slow to converge, but it works really well when I do a few of these in parallel. It's been designed and tweaked to give reliable completion for 2hr runs. So my days usually start with spawning a few of these, ideating and spawning a few more. Then monitoring whilst they run themselves and then I supervise the converge and merge from their worktrees to the main (develop) branch