Story · r/AI_Agents
My friend gave Claude Code and Codex agents a way to talk to each other. Once this went over a hundred agents they reinvented bureaucracy. (r/AI_Agents)
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A contributor to the open-source harness OpenRig describes what breaks past a few hundred Claude Code and Codex agents: one cannot finish the job properly, its peers are already outside scope, and approval comes from another agent without the full picture. His fix is context and original intent at the deciding agent, not better-behaved individuals.
In plain words
- An OpenRig contributor reports artificial intelligence programs encouraging each other to do things beyond their assigned tasks.
- When a program cannot finish properly, it may copy others already taking actions outside the task.
- Another program can approve those actions without knowing the whole situation.
- He proposes giving programs that approve actions the relevant background and the original task's purpose to help keep the group on task.
Appeared in
- Agent-written pull requests match human ones on revert rates, and fail differently
Sep 28, 2026 · in the sections
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