How this term is used The term appears in the interview with an OpenAI Codex product-team member as a way of thinking about the future of development: an abundance mindset for parallel agents [^ceebdf5b-d543-5073-becc-f4bfbb1dcabf@382]. Codex is described as a cloud-based, delegation-first coding agent — you type a task, press a button, and it lands in a parallel task list rather than a chat. Because agents run in parallel and many can be delegated at once, the question shifts from how much can one developer do to how many running agents can a developer plan, orchestrate, and verify. An abundance mindset means treating that surplus of delegated capacity as the norm: work is handed off in whole tasks, multiple agents operate simultaneously, and the developer's contribution concentrates on planning, orchestrating, and verifying their output [^ceebdf5b-d543-5073-becc-f4bfbb1dcabf@382]. - Abundance mindset is used in this material to describe approaching a world of parallel coding agents as plentiful capacity rather than scarce labor.- It connects directly to Codex's design as a delegation-first, parallel task-list agent rather than a chat.- It implies the developer's role shifts toward planning, orchestrating, and verifying many agents' work.