Does anyone actually use Codex ultra mode? Subagents just produce 'a mountain of slop'
wstone_bd · x · 2026-09-16
Developer wstonebd asks whether anyone effectively uses Codex in ultra mode: in his experience, once tasks get delegated to subagents, everything falls apart and he ends up "with a mountain of slop that wasn't part of the initial plan." The post resonates as a critique of multi-agent task decomposition reliability.
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