Karpathy says Codex and Claude Code need user control over subagent roles and model choice
emollick · x · 2026-07-22
Andrej Karpathy says Codex and Claude Code need finer control over subagents
Andrej Karpathy points out a practical limitation in tools like Codex and Claude Code: users need more control over how orchestrator AIs configure their subagents.
His core point is that the human should be able to decide:
- whether a subagent should do research, writing, or user testing
- which model each subagent should use
Without that control, the system becomes “a router problem again” — meaning the orchestrator is still making too many hidden delegation decisions on the user’s behalf.
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