[Nedomas]

two weeks ago I started heavily using Codex (I have 20y+ dev xp).

At first I was very enthusiastic and thought Codex is helping me multiplex myself. But you actually spend so much time trying to explain Codex the most obvious things and it gets them wrong all the time in some kind of nuanced way that in the end you spend more time doing things via Codex than by hand.

So I also dialed back Codex usage and got back to doing many more things by hand again because its just so much faster and much more predictable time-wise.

[nsingh2]

Same experience, these "background agents" are powered by models that aren't yet capable enough to handle large, tangled or legacy codebases without human guidance. So the background part ends up being functionally useless in my experience.