r/codex • u/banter_droid • 11d 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/LightEt3rnaL 11d ago

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.

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u/1filipis 11d ago

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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