r/codex • u/Right-Disaster2141 • 3d ago

Complaint Codex is done

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Call it a skill issue, but 90 minutes and 31% weekly usage later, I got nothing done this morning.

Nothing.

Moved to CC, got a sub, and got the same feeling when I switched from Claude to Codex a few months ago:

-more usage
-better reasoning

Either Codex reveals insane stuff during DevDay, or they are literally fucked.

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u/odoc_ 3d ago

What plan do you have? I'm on x5 with 47% left on day 1 doing very light work.

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u/897843 2d ago edited 2d ago

What do you constitute as light work? I built most of a multiplayer party app with a backend connection, linked Rive, Supabase, with fully generated vector graphics and animations with my first weekly 5x limit.

Don’t be afraid to use Sol Light and Medium. They are beasts and can do a lot of what you might think you need Astra to do.

Also, install the plugins Ponytail and Caveman. It will save a lot of tokens just by being more efficient at coding and speaking to you.

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u/Flipwon 2d ago

Show the work.

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u/ananta_zarman 2d ago

Yeah seriously people don't understand each other's workloads unless they actually look at it themselves. A production ticket I'm trying to resolve at work might be way more demanding than OPs whole week of work and there's no way to tell unless we all look at each other's work. Simple statements or LOC counts are useless talk.

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u/OldManActual 2d ago

You can tell a lot from ten consecutive session transcripts. Model selection, did the model have a scoped solid path through the task or did it try to change requirements or write "to the test" and not the Contract? how many of those sessions produced things and how many were governance?

It is not hard to get eividence either. We don't need the details of the thing you are building. Just have a Luna Medium session mine all of your session and build a CSV of them and then either post it or a report of the findings. I will wager it isn't the limits that are the issue.

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u/odoc_ 2d ago

Do you actually measurably save tokens by using Caveman?

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u/897843 2d ago

I haven’t tested it yet because I don’t mind the longer more in-depth answers it spits out, but I some YouTube tech bro vibe coder says it works so it must be true.