I can get a bot to write code via a chat 100x faster than I can get a bot to...

@mistersql

I can get a bot to write code via a chat 100x faster than I can get a bot to write code via OpenAI Codex (letting the bot do many, many steps unattended in between prompts)
- So much "churn" kind of like reasoning tokens, but it is all this excessive tool use. It loves to delete temp/.gitignored files.
- You have to adapt your code to run in the codex environment
- remove distractors or the bot will go looking that that thing
- you need a 2nd CONTRIBUTORS.md called AGENTS.md

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I think there must be some tasks where this async workflow is fine, but the tasks that work really well with chat, "write this code/fix this code" aren't it. Maybe "write these tests" and some other tasks I haven't thought of.