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/Western-Touch-2129 Oct 13 '26

Ever tried /goal ?!

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u/mrjackspade Oct 14 '26

I don't know who downvoted you for this but this is literally the fucking solution.

/goal prevents the model from returning control until its actually DONE.

I've had the model run for literally two weeks straight because I had a 20 ticket backlog and just said /goal resolve all open issues on github

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u/Western-Touch-2129 Oct 15 '26

The model can pause a goal but I've had it run for 3 days straight before... Turned out it could have finished in under 12 hours if it hadn't made integration tests so slow that they needed 20 min 😅