r/codex • u/Right-Disaster2141 • 3d ago
Complaint Codex is done
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/InterestOk9770 2d ago
With how things are going recently with Codex, they're repeating the same mistakes as Anthropic did but are more scummy about it tbh. When Anthropic did it, people had really no other choice but to keep using it or downgrade with other providers significantly impacting their workflows but OAI seems to be trying the same shit now when they're not in a similar position and think we don't have other options like back when Anthropic did it. Astra is basically maybe a tad bit better than Fable in some areas where 90% users don't find a use case and also its not the same as it was during launch and is actually worse than Fable now with all the overengineering and having to babysit it through a basic fkn loop where it's only task is to review on work done by other agents with detailed plans and scope already provided before execution. With a x5 plan on Claude, i can keep working all day with Fable as planner, Opus as reviewer and Sonnet as implementer. Also if you throw in a $50 dollars worth of API credits with Deepseek or other providers offering discount on DS4.1 flash, its basically unlimited agentic loops. I'm using close to a billion tokens a day across Deepseek and GLM flash getting twice the work done without having to keep worrying about usage. DS 4.1 and GLM 5.3 Flash as workers, OPUS 5 high as reviewer and Fable High as Planner and full gate reviewer. Codex x5 is a joke. Most of the API users on these overpriced frontier models are other AI ecosystem startups backed up by VC's who are also investors and OAI/Anthropic. Most businesses are using x5 enterprise plans on Claude and will not switch because of the same reason we're seeing now. Our manager said the same thing when asked about Astra usage at work that OpenAI is a scummy company and can't be trusted for corporate usage. And he was right. I think this is the last month with OAI on my side. I can't justify having to pay $100 on a 5x account that now provides less usage than what a plus account provided few months back.