Original Reddit post

I think I’ve overengineered my AI coding workflow and I need an outside perspective. I use Claude Code + Codex with planning, code review, specialized review agents, pre push checks, hooks, skills, rules, etc. It works, but lately it feels painfully slow. The breaking point was spending almost 3 days on what should have been a relatively simple workflow improvement. The change itself was tiny, but reviews kept finding more process related things to review, which created more work, which triggered more reviews. At this point I’m too close to the system to judge it objectively. I’m not even fully confident I understand everything happening under the hood anymore. I’m looking for someone experienced with Claude Code, Codex, multi agent workflows, or similar setups who would be willing to look at the whole thing as a third party and tell me: What is useful? What is redundant? What should I delete? What am I massively overthinking? Also considering an orchestrator but would love to improve my workflow first so the orchestrator runs smoothly. I’m totally open to hearing that I should throw half of it away. If anyone enjoys auditing this kind of setup, I’d love the help. submitted by /u/Super-Owl2819

Originally posted by u/Super-Owl2819 on r/ClaudeCode