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Claude Opus spawns 451 sub-agents, consuming 14M tokens in 5 hours

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A user reported that their enterprise license for Claude Opus enabled the creation of 451 sub-agents, which consumed 14 million tokens within a five-hour period without reaching usage limits. This extensive usage was for data annotation purposes, not frivolous tasks. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates advanced agentic capabilities and high-throughput token processing, potentially impacting large-scale data annotation workflows.

RANK_REASON User report of a specific technical capability (sub-agent spawning and token consumption) of a frontier model. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Claude Opus spawns 451 sub-agents, consuming 14M tokens in 5 hours

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/YungBoiSocrates ·

    After using my own Pro subscription for 18 months, my job finally got an enterprise license. I just had Opus spawn 451 Sonnet subagents which used 14M worth of tokens in a single 5 hour session -- and it didn't even hit the limit. This is amazing.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Before y'all yell at me for using tokens on bs, it was for data annotation for a project I'm running. It wasn't just for shits and giggles.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YungBoiSocrates"> /…

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