Just looked this up, no longer true. Explore subagents inherit whatever model the parent is. And you can of course make other subagent configs.
replyThat'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...
replyI 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.
replyBut either way, I think GP's overall sentiment of "delegating intelligence-saturated tasks to an outdated but fast subagent" makes a lot of sense.
Customer service has really degraded huh. 4 years ago they expected opus performance out of human call center agents
replyI guess losing some customers due to poor customer service is ok if the price of customer service is right.