25-year veteran runs Opus+Codex Astra adversarial coding loop at $400/month
Due_Warthog749 · reddit · 2026-09-15
A developer with 25+ years of experience who no longer writes code himself shared his year-long multi-LLM workflow and asked peers whether it's optimal.
Current workflow
- Ideate with Opus 5 (sometimes Fable), then force Codex Astra to adversarially poke holes in plans; Opus codes, Astra reviews again
- After every build he runs an 11-agent multi-agent review in Opus, plus adversarial, chaos, scale, and mutation tests
- Over 60,000 tests accumulated, with agents auditing whether tests are meaningful rather than passing for the sake of passing
Pain points and questions
- The loop is 5x slower, but he believes quality beats most human teams
- Codex 20x + Claude 20x costs $400/month and he keeps hitting Opus weekly limits
- Owns a DGX Spark, considering $15K on an RTX 6000 Pro to shift most coding to Qwen 3.8 27B, and asks which LLM is best for orchestration vs coding
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