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I've hit this point with AI where it's not a simple process, but a long drawn out back and forth.

I'll use AI to design the implementation of a medium sized, cross cutting feature. Review all the details, maybe iterate on just that. Then implement with Claude 4.7 Max - which runs slower, but does a better job. Then review the implementation, then have Codex GPT 5.5 xhigh fast review it - which almost always finds corner cases. Have Claude fix those - Claude is better at writing intuitive maintainable code versus Codex overengineered/shortcut filled code. (Codex is better at finding/fixing bugs and doing reviews - it's annoyingly pedantic)

Then repeat with fresh Claude/Codex instances having them both review the current staged changes and getting feedback, handling the feedback. Then covering it in tests. I mean overall I still implement the feature faster than coding it manually, but I spend a majority of the time going back and forth with reviews, handling corner cases and at the finish end up with what I feel a really solid implementation of whatever feature I'm working on. The v1 feature feels more like a v3 given the amount of iteration it already went through.

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Hybrid AI review loops outperform solo coding by treating each model as a role, not a single tool. Let Claude sketch maintainable architecture and readable flow, Codex ferret out corner cases and hard-to-see bugs, then loop feedback into tests. The real skill is orchestrating this review cadence until the feature ships with real confidence, not rushing a single draft.
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