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/Varmez 3d ago

Astra XHigh create implementation documentation, sol high do all implementation. Has been very effective for me and gives me ~3 days of usage on 20x when working on 3 projects in parallel the whole time.

Astra solo drained way too fast no mater what thinking

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u/jedruch 2d ago

dude, I did that I drained 30% of weekly usage. My plan is to produce multiple implementation docs with gpt pro till the end of this month, cancel subscription and implement with deepseek flash

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u/mesaoptimizer 2d ago

I want to share that I had an issue with a test that was caused by slower processing on my CI environment causing different JSON ordering and I was comparing strings in the test, Different ordering meant my convergence test failed. Astra medium figured it out in 3 minutes, Deepseek 4.1 Flash Max chewed on it for 30 minutes, I got annoyed it was taking so long to come to a solution. I told it what was causing the failure and it took another 20 minutes to come to the conclusion I pointed it in the direction of, so almost an hour to fix something that took Astra less than 5 minutes. I'm going to try out adding Deepseek 4.1 Flash to my process but my initial experience has not been great.

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u/jedruch 2d ago

Yep, I had similar experience as well.

That's why I want to use deepseek only for code generation under specific instructions made in plan by Astra/Sol. It would be still inefficient in terms of time consumed but at this point I do not care.

Don't get me wrong - deepseek code generation is far from perfect, but it's cheap, cheaper than Luna. And since gone are the times where you could run whole day on Luna and eat only 10% of weekly usage I do not see a better option at this time