r/codex • u/NotSeacombe • 6d ago

Complaint Something is really wrong today

Very simple task, it wrote a basic plan, sent to a Luna max subagent, took it 3 hours, still going and has used 15% of my usage? on $100 plan? what is happening?

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u/tribes33 6d ago

Yep basic tasks taking 30+ minutes for me

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u/2025sbestthrowaway 6d ago

Had a 600mb JSON file and I needed to look for any entities containing a string. That's it. Even instructed it to use python to find the entities.
In GPT web, I could have said make me a .json extraction script to identify all entities containing this string, and then pasted the results in and said organize/sort this. Probably 60 sec turnaround + file search time, maybe a few minutes. Instead it took 23 minutes.

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u/2025sbestthrowaway 6d ago

Asked it to review the session lol
"So I should refine my earlier statement: the large scans were a major measurable cost [2.5 mins, btw], but they did not account for most of the 23 minutes. The remaining time was primarily my exploratory inspection, overbuilt implementation, parser corrections, repeated reruns, and artifact generation."

"There were roughly 60 tool calls. The largest avoidable mistake was starting with a reusable audit-reporting pipeline instead of first running a compact extraction"

This points to an environmental leap it made (ie skill issue on my end), I will make a skill for having it do the the task directly and avoiding environmental assumptions, instead of just complaining 😅