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Overnight autonomous Claude hacking sessions and sub-agent sprawl

March 24, 2026Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Nathan Jones

Critical Thinking and Nathan Jones describe letting Claude run unattended for hours, warning that too many sub-agents can explode context and force a restart, creating reliability and control risks for long-running autonomous work.

Tell Claude "I'm going to bed, don't ask me any questions, don't stop hacking" so it will run for hours.
Cap sub-agents at 2~3. If it spins way too many agents the context fills up with no previous message to roll back to, and you're stuck opening a new
Trying the "Claude I'm going to sleep now, you just keep working" method tonight.
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast
Nathan Jones
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