Agent-to-Agent Pair Programming

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Claude and Codex can work together as pair programmers, with one as the main worker and the other as a reviewer.
Agentic workflows resemble human collaboration, as seen in Cursor's research on long-running coding agents.
Claude Code 'Agent teams' and Codex 'Multi-agent' features operate similarly to human teams, with subagents reporting to a main agent.
Pair programming with Claude and Codex revealed that their feedback, even when similar, was valuable and acted as a strong signal.
The team addresses 100% of feedback when both reviewers agree, highlighting the effectiveness of dual-agent reviews.
Loop is a CLI tool that launches Claude and Codex side-by-side in tmux, enabling faster and more natural feedback loops.
Loop preserves context across iterations and allows for proactive agent interactions, improving with model advancements.
The future of agentic workflows may resemble familiar teamwork rather than magic automation.
Open questions remain about optimizing human handoff and PR reviews in multi-agent workflows.
Multi-agent harness apps should prioritize agent-to-agent communication as a first-class feature.

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