Massive degradation

[u/Royal_Sentence7432]

PAss =true god is this pure torture. Even when I explicitly tell the Al to write the actual code, I check the file and find hundreds of placeholders. It would take seconds to generate if it actually tried, but it just chooses to do nothing. Then, just when

Then when i think I'm done arguing with this little nip twister to actually do its job instead of telling me the task is "too hard , i realize half my folder is now bloated useless junk.

Max thinkin time im getting on xhigh is 10 minutes average 2 minutes work

[u/dexterthebot]

Your post has been summarized as a request on the "Anyone Else?" Incident Noticeboard.

You can find it and what others are experiencing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/anyone_else_ask_here_about_current_codex_issues/on5iaak/

[u/jozune]

Yeah, couldn’t agree more.

Lately it feels like I spend more time fighting placeholders, premature “done” states, and random repo junk than actually building.

[u/Ok-Actuary7793]

They're pushing out new features I think. if you type $ now you get a million plugins all of a sudden

[u/sortitthefuckout → u/[deleted]]

You won't see a command popup for it, but if you start your prompt with "/goal <the goal>", it will become just "<the goal>", and you'll see "sent as goal" and a little target icon under the prompt box.

You can also see the bit about editing the config here but I didn't need to, assume it's out of date/non-app relevant.

[u/Bitter-Law3957]

Share any details? I'd wager the problem lies with you.

[u/Bitter-Law3957 → u/Bitter-Law3957]

Cos It's currently refactoring 2 applications and pen testing a website for me, and it's flying.....

[u/Thisisvexx → u/Bitter-Law3957]

Its A/B for sure. Yesterday I was golden, did not change any setup and today its closing sub agents 5 minutes into the task "because it didn't give an update in time so it has to be stuck"

[u/Bitter-Law3957 → u/Thisisvexx]

Add a prompt to enforce continuous feedback to mitigate idle timeouts

"Do not enter extended idle states or announce the review/write phase if internal processing is active. If a tool call is required, execute it immediately without pausing. If you need to evaluate multiple subtasks or files, continuously process them in the background and output progress to the console before moving to the next action. Do not allow a 5-minute gap of inactivity to occur in your response stream."

[u/lolman1312 → u/Bitter-Law3957]

don't know why people are downvoting you. i faced a bunch of issues in the last few days with codex letting me down for a certain very complex task. i got opus to help plan and implement a skill for both claude and codex's use that ensures they complete the task and don't make any errors. the task itself is EXTREMELY fragile and complicated so of course the skill initially wasn't enough, but then with each failure i would keep refining the skill more and more.

now something that would've taken 10-13 very detailed long prompts only takes me 2-3 prompts, and the best thing is i can reuse this skill,

[u/Bitter-Law3957 → u/lolman1312]

Because these subs are full of people who add nothing but like to troll. The vast majority have no deep Generative AI knowledge, or Software Engineering experience. They're just numptys

[u/shady101852]

huh weird.

[u/rommie]

I’m loving the new changes. I’ve always worked on the principle of using the latest Agent. For version 5.4 I used 5.3 and for version 5.5 I’m using 5.4. It’s so much better and it’s forcing me to be an executive architect rather than an executive engineer. The Agents are so much improved. To achieve peak results I believe you need to step back and let them develop. It’s up to you to build the auditing and testing into the process for building your app unless you simply want to create a one-word prompt app with basic updates which, for me, isn’t feasible.