Codex gets mocked for serializing eight parallel jobs into an eight-hour loop
chaumian · x · 2026-07-27
A short jab at Codex: it allegedly spends 8 hours and uses all weekly quota to run 8 embarrassingly parallel 1-hour jobs serially, while its deep reasoning loop keeps discovering that everything is still running every 15 seconds. It reads like a complaint about an agent that is technically busy but operationally inefficient.
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