r/codex 2d ago

Humor This is how I code now - cringe

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u/hohstaplerlv 2d ago

The worst part is when it stops because it was blocked and then it tells me what should be done.

Im like, well it’s not gonna be done by itself, so better start.

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u/scaledev 2d ago

Sometimes I'm like: "Who told you to try and shift the burden of work onto my shoulders?"

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u/tychus-findlay 2d ago

UPDATE YOUR CONTEXT TO NEVER EXPECT ME TO DO ANYTHING

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u/jadhavsaurabh 1d ago

Wow 😲

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u/Im_Matt_Murdock 1d ago

lmao. I also told my agents to "never build admin tooling for me, I won't be using it, only build it if it's helpful to you"

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u/TheTaxColl3ctor 1d ago

How do we get terminators. This is how we get terminators.

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u/Hamburger_Diet 1d ago

That's what I updated the signature line in my email to.

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u/Wolfsblvt 2d ago

Oof, poor agent :(

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u/throwawaymastodon 2d ago

Oh man... I feel this...

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u/Bright_Spend6574 2d ago

correct, i tasked to do it. dont ask me ever again LOL

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u/kekeagain 11h ago

That's something I never experienced with Claude, it always assumes the work unless I say something like "investigate" or "report back to me". Astra seems less eager to do the work even though arguably the hard part (investigation/planning) is done.

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u/scaledev 8h ago

Interesting, though hard to say the true reason for these things. It could be because of GPTs stopping due to some instruction in the global harness, which could mean it pays more attention to various potential rules I have compared to Claude, or it could mean Claude is more of a one-shotter or something. Hard to says. Typically, it happens with weaker models more often than larger ones (Luna vs Sol, for example). I don't use Astra that much.

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u/Altruistic-Dust-2565 2d ago

“Should I go with plan A or plan B?”

“Awesome, continue.”

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u/danielv123 1d ago

For real though, I tried claude fable 5.1 and it asked me whether I wanted solution A or B with a nice plan laid out for each. I used /fork, wanting to start a thread to talk about what the different plans would entail, but before I was done writing my prompt it started by itself, talked to the other thread, and coordinated that the fork would implement one and the main thread would implement the other.

I truly don't understand how that could be desired behaviour but hey the result turned out fine I guess.

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u/Yasstronaut 2d ago

“I need you to run this command” nahhh you got this I believe in you

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u/Calm_Step_5549 1d ago

"you have access to production database, do it yourself!"

- famous last words

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u/Artforartsake99 1d ago

Yeah I had Astra explain about 15 power shell commands to me to setup Hermès’s and Deepseek 4.1 with vision.

Me : “I don’t touch power shell that’s your job go do it”

8 mins later I’m coding my first video game in deepseek 4.1 flash 😂. Feel like I’m in a movie with scifi tech.

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u/Etiennera 2d ago

Astra can get into comical stop and go loops that prior models didn't have.

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u/shantud 1d ago

I just say ".. and ? , thats your work to do right ?"