An approach that works really well for me in opencode is to use DeepSeek flash for the code exploration sub agent, and a smarter model for the overall task.
Code exploration tends to burn a ton of tokens and do not require frontier knowledge. It then returns a compact overview of the findings to the better model, that can therefore perform its task with less tokens.
Code exploration tends to burn a ton of tokens and do not require frontier knowledge. It then returns a compact overview of the findings to the better model, that can therefore perform its task with less tokens.
Anyone else has a similar approach?