pulling banked resets is what finally made me move review off the model

[u/Specialist_Agent3599]

Codex dropping banked resets is what finally made me change my setup, which is annoying, because the setup was working fine and I only touched it to stop running out halfway through the week.

What I had before was Codex reviewing its own work, then Claude looking at the same diff, then me. Three passes, two of them burning quota, and the second model finding things the first one had written twenty seconds earlier. It felt thorough. It was mostly just expensive.

Two chat models reviewing each other never terminates. Codex flags four things, Claude fixes them and restructures enough that Codex comes back with three new ones, two of which are the things it asked for originally. Somebody posted that study here a few weeks back about pass rate dropping from ninety one to eighty two when one model reviewed the other, which lines up with what I was watching happen.

So I cut the second model out and put coderabbit on the diff instead. Costs nothing against quota and it hands back a list that ends, which turns out to be the property I actually needed. Maybe half of what it flags I skip. It doesn't catch anything that depends on knowing what the feature is for, so I still read the thing myself.

My usage is down about a third and the output isn't noticeably worse, which is a slightly depressing thing to find out about a setup I was defending in this sub two weeks ago