Claude Code $0.02/Call Coworker Setup Hits 1,123 Upvotes — Community Discovers Cost-Efficient Subagent Pattern

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A r/ClaudeAI post detailing how to pair Claude Code with a cheap $0.02/call coworker model to avoid hitting weekly Pro limits has become the most upvoted Claude tooling post of the week at 1,123 upvotes and 115 comments. The author reports that previous approaches (compact mode, Sonnet for simple tasks, tighter prompts) failed, but routing routine implementation work to a cheap subagent while keeping Opus for architectural decisions solved the weekly limit problem entirely. This is a significant signal for the emerging pattern of multi-tier model routing as a cost optimization strategy for daily Claude Code users.