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title: "Discussion on \"Why Role-Based Subagents Slow Down Coding Agents: Subagent Folding + Progressive Skill Disclosure (2.66x Faster)\" | Hashnode"
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# [Why Role-Based Subagents Slow Down Coding Agents: Subagent Folding + Progressive Skill Disclosure (2.66x Faster)](https://tappers.hashnode.dev/e05-subagent-folding?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

💡 AI Labo Benchmark Series — Experiment E05 (Multi-Agent vs. Folded Loop) This post is part of our empirical benchmark series testing AI coding agent harness patterns inside network-isolated Proxmox

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