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When Plan Mode Was No Longer Enough
Community description: How milestone-based execution plans helped me reduce the review burden, preserve decisions, and regain control over code generated by Codex CLI.
Dev.to | Sep 12, 2026 | Renan Franca
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Plan Mode initially felt like enough My workflow with Codex CLI used to be relatively simple. Codex was not struggling to generate code. The execution plan became a record of the implementation. Codex can still create tests that are too closely tied to implementation details. I still question tests and design decisions.
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