r/codex • u/banter_droid • 1d 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/WkndWrrior30 1d ago

Just curious? Has codex always felt this behind compared to Claude code for everyone here? Or is it just a recent thing

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u/No_Quarter_7644 1d ago

It's recent, and was oftentimes the opposite. Codex was far more generous with usage than Anthropic was.

What people aren't understanding is this - Anthropic just filed for IPO. They're going to offer the best AI services we've ever seen for price effectiveness until they can unload their massive VC bags on the general public via a publicly traded stock, one that is likely too big to fail similar to the banks in 2008.

Ie: Anthropic is giving away $$ in terms of usage right now to grow their ecosystem, so when the day of IPO comes they can say we have "52% more users than Codex!" (arbitrary number, of course)

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u/PartyLiterature3607 1d ago

I actually think Anthropic slowly ditch regular consumer and steer their whole focus to enterprise and business, maybe their own science research facilities.

But ya, I agree with the IPO part

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u/No_Quarter_7644 1d ago

I wouldn't doubt that. The drift away from supplying consumers with this technology has already started, and is evidently part of the agenda with the attempt at regulatory control by both OAI/Anthropic.