Tools vs. Subagents: Building Effective AI Agents Without Over-Engineering

# Tools vs. Subagents: Building Effective AI Agents Without Over-Engineering When you give an AI assistant a job to do, you can either let it use simple tools (like a calculator or email sender) or break the work into smaller AI assistants that each handle one piece. The trick is knowing when simple tools do the job fine and when you actually need to split things up, so you don't make your system more complicated than it needs to be.