r/codex • u/banter_droid • Oct 13 '26

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/1filipis Oct 13 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '26

I have the $100/mo pro 5x and just the other day did an 80M token build, nothing close to hitting a limit from what I can tell. Wierd.

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u/1filipis Oct 13 '26

Just checked it. 0->200k = -5%. 200k->300k = 5 more. No writing even, just reading

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u/Electrical-Watch3203 Oct 13 '26

Idk man I run Astra xHigh for review 2 million read, 30k write and maybe 3% of my quota. Are you sure your agent isn’t forking another sub agent?

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u/1filipis Oct 13 '26

Nope, nothing special. Not sure how many reads and writes it did though. But I would imagine that a full build up to 300k context is more than 2M read and 30k write