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The idle-parent trap on LLM Agents

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Companion to Two agents, one night, 158 million tokens . About four minutes to read. The picture A parent model delegates a job to a worker and then has nothing else to do. It wants to know when the worker is finished. It has one tool for that: wait up to N seconds for the worker, then tell me what…

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  1. 2026-09-17 04:51 · DEV Community — AI
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