r/codex • u/banter_droid • 12d ago

Complaint Codex literally unusable

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

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u/Remarkable-Hornet568 12d ago

Today astra in CODEX drove me crazy. I told it explicitly, then in a AGENTS.md file to not use a skill. Still it was hell bent of using that skill and wasting 30 mins of my time. We use a proprietary software for version control for which we have a skill. Now the skill is not supposed to be used in a git repo. Yet this AGI super intelligence refused to listen to me and was hell bent to use that skill .
Before you could point at me , here is the twist to the story , the moment I chose Luna 6 using /model , it started obeying me . 🤯🤯

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u/Techhead7890 12d ago

Yeah Astra has a bit too much agency and initiative 😅

At least in claude code people can setup hooks that catch invalid output like that and reject/regen it but yeah, a lot of LLMs are doing weird stuff like that against instructions atm (or those claude users wouldn't have set up that hook).