Stop Delegating to Dumber Agents: Real-World Codex Pain Point

emollick · x · 2026-08-09

Ethan Mollick shared his experience using OpenAI Codex, noting a key frustration: when instructing the model to stop delegating tasks to 'dumber agents' and elaborate test harnesses, it becomes clear these sub-agents often miss obvious errors that the main model would catch at a glance. This highlights current limitations in multi-agent workflows.

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