Developer details why orchestrated coding agents stall mid-backlog and won't chain tasks
W1141175 · reddit · 2026-11-14
A developer describes persistent orchestration failures with Codex and T3: agents hit phantom "blockers" despite full access, refuse to continue to browser testing, and never pick up the next backlog task or run tasks in parallel. After trying automations, Hermes Agent, ChatGPT Dots, and cron jobs, only Cursor agents inside Cursor projects (paired with Grok) worked well — but the Codex subscription is IDE-only.
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