[gck1]

If it's anything like ClaudeCode's ultracode, it's nothing new or revolutionary.

It's essentially a bunch of subagents being called by a deterministic script written by the main model thread, each eating tokens for lunch and output of which is synthesized by an orchestrator agent.

[Sidio]

The fact that it's even named Ultra is pretty telling.

[bogdan]

Ultra expensive

[mohsen1]

Confusion is: ultracode is not a different model with its own benchmarks

[gck1]

Neither is OpenaAI's ultra. Article specifically calls it 'mode' and it's not even mentioned in the model card.

It's for sure a codex harness feature.

EDIT: yeah, it's the same thing. https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/test...

[enraged_camel]

>> If it's anything like ClaudeCode's ultracode, it's nothing new or revolutionary.

OpenAI flat out copying Anthropic is a pretty funny development. It's strong evidence that they've been in catch-up mode.

[gck1]

Eh, pretty much everyone that spent some time tweaking their harness already had a homemade 'ultracode' long before Anthropic did it.

OpenAI is just way more careful with what features they add or enable by default in their harness. Anthropic's harness is a junk drawer of random features, with a new feature added every few hours. It feels like they're in panic mode, dropping random things to see what sticks when models are eventually commoditized.

I prefer OpenAI way - slow and steady.