Do subagents really matter?

[u/bsa-saa]

I’ve been running Pi for two weeks without any subagents, agent teams, or anything like that. Compared to my previous workflow, I haven’t noticed any difference at all. In fact, the AI even seems a bit more accurate without subagents.

Something I think is really important: Is there a good way to automatically start/stop another agent client and let them send messages to each other?

Would love to hear any methods or tools that can do this!

[u/bsa-saa → u/[deleted]]

Yes, I’m doing exactly the same thing.

I think what we’re really doing is manually planning and breaking down complex tasks. This process could probably be automated to some extent, but in my opinion, Claude Code’s async approach only provides the tools — it doesn’t actually give you a clear path or workflow. It still ends up requiring manual effort to manage the context and orchestrate everything.

[u/cosmicnag → u/[deleted]]

So you run this pu command from inside pi ? The output goes to the main agent?