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AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer

The Decoder · Sep 17, 2026, 11:03 AM UTC

OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens without improving quality because agents don't trust each other and end up double-checking everyone's work.…

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