Codex Auto-Switches Planning and Execution Models
prasanna_says · x · 2026-07-11
A user noticed that Codex automatically switches to terra xhigh in "planning mode" and back to the default terra medium in "execution mode."
The author praises this task-phase-dependent model switching strategy, indicating that coding agents are now decoupling and optimizing "planning" and "execution" separately.
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