The idea of giving it a task that may take six hours and reviewing it also gives me shivers.

I'm a very happy Codex customer, but everything turns to disgusting slop if I don't provide:

(1) Up-to-date AGENTS.md and an excellent prompt

(2) A full file-level API with function signatures, return types and function-level guidance if it's a complex one

(3) Multiple rounds of feedback until the result is finely sculpted

Overall it's very small units of work - one file or two, tops.

I've been letting the above standards go for the last couple of weeks due to crunch and looking at some of the hotspots of slop now lying around has me going all Homelander-face [1] at the sight of them.

Those hotspots are a few hundred lines in the worst cases; I'm definitely not ready to deal with the fallout of any unit of work that takes even more than 20min.

[1] https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/050/702/ab7...