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# [My AI Agents Kept Burning Tokens on Subagents That Can't Code — So I Built a Decision Gate](https://blog.workswithagents.dev/my-ai-agents-kept-burning-tokens-on-subagents-that-cant-code-so-i-built-a-decision-gate-2135?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

By Vilius Vystartas | May 2026 I run 19 autonomous AI agents in production. They handle research, content, monitoring, deployment — the kind of always-on work that makes a solo developer's output look like a small team's. The delegation feature was s...

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