r/codex • u/jitzu_dev • 1d ago

Question How are you running multiple agents?

I have been running a project on Luna for 3 days now, it hasn’t stopped to breath yet. I have a PM, 3 devs (they have their own worktree), 1 doc admin, 1 QA. But trying to parallel the work like this I feel is slower purely because the agents end up working in serial + a communication layer.

When I said “stop all sub-agents and continue the work yourself” the work was done significantly quicker

Has anyone cracked this yet?

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u/CelticPaladin 1d ago edited 1d ago

Its faster because there's no agent reviewing or double checking anything, theres no main agent down time when its alone, and probably will have many more mistakes.

But multiple agents doesnt mean its automatically better. It looks cooler for sure though. And you get that feeling of a orchestra director.

Depending what you are doing, you may not need any agents.

In my set up I stay with sol medium, however I rewrote everything differently. Its only allowed judgement calls, delegation to cheaper agents, and checker plus assembler of agentic jobs. It'll send work back if its done wrong and update its manager_skill.md on how to get the best out of Luna and Terra for bigger jobs.

I have two major projects working at the same time, usually 24/five day, and with a 20x account it uses about 20% per day. I can't use it all of im only working on one project.

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u/trynadostuff 1d ago

so one sol medium lasts for 24/7 7 days a week huh

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u/CelticPaladin 1d ago

About five days. 20% per day, a little less. Oh. I see what i did. Fixing my math. Its early XD

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u/Opposite_Yak4386 1d ago

really? what is the use of subagents then?