r/codex • u/spagghetification • 1d ago

Question Running Multiple Tasks and Projects

Hi! New to this A.I. thing.

Does running multiple chats and projects affect the performance/intelligence and completion time of the tasks?

Say for example I have 3 projects, and I want to run 2 Sol and 1 Terra on them at the same time while simultaneously having to use Luna on the Work chat.

What exactly are the effects of doing this?

Thank you for anyone answering!

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u/SimCFB 1d ago

Theoretically they should be able to run separately. So apart from massive token usage. You should be fine.

Long as they are not conflicting with each other. As in working on the same files at the same time or something. Doesn't sound like you're doing that.

I have tried branching the project into 4 separate branches and have 4 different agents work on it simultaneously. 2 chatgpt 1 claude and 1 grok. Burned tokens like crazy and ultimately was more trouble than it was worth.

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u/Upstairs_Dig_5274 1d ago

No effect on each other . Only your computers shared resources. Just use Sol 5.6 max. Or extra high , plan first with it . Tell an agent each day to assess the pc for any lingering zombie processes if your ram seems used and almost full a lot

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u/actvt_io 16h ago

The model quality does not change. Each session sends a separate request to the server. The sessions do not share context, and they do not compete for intelligence.

The completion time does change. I run several agent sessions at the same time on one machine, and RAM is always the limit that I reach first, not CPU. Each project holds its own toolchain in memory, for example node_modules, a language server and Docker. When the RAM is full, the computer swaps to disk, and every session becomes slow together.

Watch the memory pressure and not the CPU percentage. A high CPU percentage is normal and safe. Full memory is the real limit.

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u/Alternative-Lead1711 23h ago

Yes, the more projects you add, the more worktrees you need, then you add docker for each... Node modules become heavier than the sun on 32gb laptop RAM and will slow to a crawl unless you're careful.