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First phase: Plan. Mandatory to complete, as well as get AI feedback from a separate context or model. Iterate until complete.
Only then move on to the Second Phase: make edits.
Better planning == Better execution
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cindyllm • yesterday at 7:05 PM
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Until a few days ago (when I switched to Codex), I would have agreed. My workflow was "thoroughly written issues" -> plan -> implement. Without the plan step, there is a high likelyhood that Claude Code (both normal or with GLM-4.7) or Cursor drift off in a wrong direction.
With Codex, I increasingly can skip the plan step, and it just toils along until it has finished the issue. It can be more "lazy" at times and ask before going ahead more often, but usually in a reasonable scope (and sometimes at points where I think other services would have gone ahead on a wrong tangent and burnt more tokens of their more limited usage).
I wouldn't be surprised that with the next 1-2 model iterations a plan step won't be worth the effort anymore, given a good enough initial written issue.