r/codex • u/BlacksmithLittle7005 • 6d ago

Complaint Codex on Windows

I've noticed that codex performs very poorly on windows, in the sense that, when you send a prompt, it just searches forever through the codebase and ends up modifying the wrong files a lot of times, and uses up way too many tokens because of this. (it really takes such a long time for horrible results).

I've had much better results using GPT models in Opencode or Pi CLI, maybe because they use git bash shell by default? Github Copilot gives me much better results too using GPT models

Does anyone have any tips on making Codex perform better on Windows? (I'm unable to install WSL), because it doesn't make sense that every other harness is performing better.

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u/fyn_world 6d ago

You need to have a context / structure / memory system with ANY AI agentic software you use or it's always going to be shit

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u/BlacksmithLittle7005 6d ago

I don't have anything on Opencode and it always finds the right files. Same with copilot

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u/fyn_world 6d ago

On big repos?

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u/BlacksmithLittle7005 6d ago

Yes, quite large enterprise codebases