Platforms like OpenAI Codex and Google Jules are taking a swing at distributed cognition for software teams by introducing agentic parallel coding, where entire development threads are offloaded to autonomous agents operating alongside GitHub repositories. These tools enable users to manage multiple repositories efficiently, with Codex providing an async engineering team interface and Jules offering a more polished and robust experience. The real story here is not about AI writing code, but about treating repositories as addressable environments for action, where tasks are launched, branches updated, and logs streamed in a way that's not currently possible with traditional coding tools.