Codex lacks a built-in feature for parallel sub-agents like Claude Code. The workaround is to instruct the main Codex instance to write a script that launches multiple, separate terminal sessions of itself. Each session handles a sub-task in parallel, and the main instance aggregates the results.
Browser-based ChatGPT cannot execute code or connect to external APIs, limiting its power. The Codex CLI unlocks these agentic capabilities, allowing it to interact with local files, run scripts, and connect to databases, making it a far more powerful tool for real-world tasks.
Structure your development workflow to leverage the AI agent as a parallel processor. While you focus on a hands-on coding task in the main editor window, delegate a separate, non-blocking task (like scaffolding a new route) to the agent in a side panel, allowing it to "cook in the background."
When building Spiral, a single large language model trying to both interview the user and write content failed due to "context rot." The solution was a multi-agent system where an "interviewer" agent hands off the full context to a separate "writer" agent, improving performance and reliability.
Building a single, all-purpose AI is like hiring one person for every company role. To maximize accuracy and creativity, build multiple custom GPTs, each trained for a specific function like copywriting or operations, and have them collaborate.
To improve the quality and accuracy of an AI agent's output, spawn multiple sub-agents with competing or adversarial roles. For example, a code review agent finds bugs, while several "auditor" agents check for false positives, resulting in a more reliable final analysis.
Separating AI agents into distinct roles (e.g., a technical expert and a customer-facing communicator) mirrors real-world team specializations. This allows for tailored configurations, like different 'temperature' settings for creativity versus accuracy, improving overall performance and preventing role confusion.
The agent development process can be significantly sped up by running multiple tasks concurrently. While one agent is engineering a prompt, other processes can be simultaneously scraping websites for a RAG database and conducting deep research on separate platforms. This parallel workflow is key to building complex systems quickly.
Replit's leap in AI agent autonomy isn't from a single superior model, but from orchestrating multiple specialized agents using models from various providers. This multi-agent approach creates a different, faster scaling paradigm for task completion compared to single-model evaluations, suggesting a new direction for agent research.
Define different agents (e.g., Designer, Engineer, Executive) with unique instructions and perspectives, then task them with reviewing a document in parallel. This generates diverse, structured feedback that mimics a real-world team review, surfacing potential issues from multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
Treat generative AI not as a single assistant, but as an army. When prototyping or brainstorming, open several different AI tools in parallel windows with similar prompts. This allows you to juggle and cross-pollinate ideas, effectively 'riffing' with multiple assistants at once to accelerate creative output and overcome latency.