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There are always uses for outdated models. Claude Code is still using haiku 4.5 from ages ago for explore subagents for instance. Not to mention production use

by 2001zhaozhao 2mo ago

There are always uses for outdated models. Claude Code is still using haiku 4.5 from ages ago for explore subagents for instance. Not to mention production uses like customer service that only need to be "good enough"

edot 2mo ago
Just looked this up, no longer true. Explore subagents inherit whatever model the parent is. And you can of course make other subagent configs.
- samtheprogram 2mo ago
  That's solely so that you burn more money. It's totally unnecessary to assume the parent model. Sure, it could be upgraded from Haiku if there was a solid reason to, but...
- AussieWog93 2mo ago
  I mean, if you could get Opus or even Sonnet 4.5 at 1000+ tok/s exploring the codebase, they would probably change that setting back. But either way, I think GP's overall sentiment of "delegating intelligence-saturated tasks to an outdated but fast subagent" makes a lot of sense.
alightsoul 2mo ago
Customer service has really degraded huh. 4 years ago they expected opus performance out of human call center agents I guess losing some customers due to poor customer service is ok if the price of customer service is right.