Developer Criticizes Codex Subagent Implementation: Memory Bloat and Crashes
mertdumenci · x · 2026-07-26
A developer posted a thread criticizing the terrible implementation of subagents in the Codex harness. While praising other features, they noted that subagent behavior is completely opaque, with no clarity on task delegation. Worse, subagents continuously accumulate, driving memory usage up to 45GB and causing crashes, while advanced models can drain 50% of the weekly quota on a single task.
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