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YesClaude Code, Codex · 8 Apr 2026

second or third passes over code with CC or Codex are almost always helpful and weed out critical issues

gbnwl on Hacker News

In the thread “The AI Great Leap Forward”

Helped: Iterative nightly passes with agents to clean and tidy code.

… People's assumptions seem to be "if AI couldn't one shot this perfectly the first time, then it's useless to try to have it go back over the codebase and identify and address issues". This doesn't match my personal experience at all, second or third passes over code with CC or Codex are almost always helpful and weed out critical issues, but I'm open to hearing from the rest of the HN crowd on their experiences on this.