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Five structural problems in agent design remain open by the field's own account — long-horizon credit assignment, durable state, multi-agent coordination cost, action verification, and silent sub-task failure.
Claude stops when the work looks done. Turning that into more than a feeling takes four separate mechanisms: a check with a real oracle, a hook that cannot be argued with, a sandbox bounding the damage, and a human gate outside the loop.
Codex is best understood as a changing stack of models, tools, execution boundaries, state, and review mechanisms—not as a single code-generating model.