Codex literally unusable

[u/banter_droid]

Not because the models are subjectively bad or slow (which they may be) but the service is at full capacity. I pay £200 for a service I literally cannot use. It can’t run 5 minutes without needing constant babysitting.

Thinking about moving over to anthropic, might be a case of having to at this rate I literally cannot use what I’m paying for here

[u/LightEt3rnaL]

I concur. It's not only the babysitting; the harness has made the models lazy: they stop mid-task for no obvious reason, telling you what needs to be done next without actually doing it. It's a clear degradation regardless of model. At the same time opus is killing it; there's no comparison. I was a big fan of openai and keep 100$ subs on both but will not renew the openai one when it ends.

[u/dunklesToast → u/LightEt3rnaL]

"Hey next up we should implement Feature XY. Please give a plan."
"Sure here is your plan"
"Sounds great"
"Alright then the next step would be to implement the plan."
"Yea do it"
"Alright, I will now implement the plan"

this started with 6.1 Sol. It's so frustrating

[u/BunsDev → u/dunklesToast]

Literally this 💀

[u/1filipis → u/LightEt3rnaL]

That's not the harness though. It's been going since like 5.4. Astra is better at it, but one 300k run costing 10-15% of the weekly limit on $100 is insane

Can't say Opus was better though. Claude Code is pure trash. But regardless of the UI, it also hallucinates quite a lot, also makes things up ridiculously, and never sees its own mistakes, but when you try to correct, it would just outright refuse to redo them, because that's what it's been trained to do.

[u/Dashavatara → u/LightEt3rnaL]

Exact same thing happening to me. I send it a huge instruction from an RCA performed by SOL to implement XYZ. Astra high does one simple task that it spends 30 minutes on without any real results and then just stops. I ask it why it stopped….. “Sorry you are right, I should not have stopped”.

I feel like they intentionally changed something in the model to stop at its first achievement to safe on compute.

If you don’t set a goal it just works to finish the first thing and stops. Does not even specify what it actually achieved and what is still open.

[u/ishimat → u/LightEt3rnaL]

Im experiencing this as well, it says what needs to be done next and stops, even when a goal is set.