Equation 13 · Codex vs Claude Code: A Systems Comparison, Not a Benchmark Beauty Contest
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G(n) can decline when workers rediscover shared context, return verbose summaries, edit overlapping files, or rely on inconsistent assumptions. Start parallelism with read-heavy mapping, test analysis, security review, and documentation verification. Isolate writers in worktrees and keep a single owner for global invariants.
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