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#008 · · 7:01 AI agentsai coding agentsclaude codecodexelbcastsgit worktreemulti-agentopenmausbotprogramming tutorialruby on railsscreencastChief of Staffparallel AI agentsclaude code tutorialcodex cliai pair programmingtdd with airails 8OpenMausBotMausBot

I Let 3 AI Agents Build a Rails Feature. Here's What Broke

I ran Claude Code and Codex in parallel on one Rails ticket, with a coordinator writing the failing tests first. Here's what broke, what it cost, and when one session beats a team.

Prerequisites: demo-shop on episode-008-before, OpenMausBot 0.1.108, Claude Code, Codex

Not covered: cloud computers, CI, pull requests, more than two builders

Source: https://github.com/webmatze/demo-shop (branches: episode-008-before / episode-008-after)

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