Codex's Infinite Hells
Merge conflicts all the way down
You can get Codex to run 60 agents an hour, agents doing independent tasks in parallel, but God forbid you try to merge all those requests at the same time.
New levels of merge conflict hell have been unlocked.
What’s so interesting to me is that these are the exact problems I’ve seen time and time again in most software organisations, sped up to such a degree that it forces (I hope) folks to see the limitations of not introducing flow-enabling practices.
Small, atomic commits, pushed regularly.
Trunk-based development.
Strong CI/CD.
At the moment, Codex is a bunch of 100x developers who don’t work together, that you have to wrangle and integrate yourself.
The future will be agents working together, pairing, sharing context about their stories, so that you can have that team of 60 working together without you.
But that’s tomorrow.
Today, Codex is the worst it will ever be, and it’s still pretty damn impressive.
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