When should Codex use multiple agents? A benchmark, not a slogan
More agents do not automatically produce better engineering. They usually add total tokens, duplicated context, handoff delay, and integration risk. Their defensible advantages are narrower: reduced elapsed time for independent work, isolated investigation, or specialist evidence that one agent might omit. The useful question is therefore not “Can this task use subagents?” It is: Does this task…
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