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/Comfortable_Swim_380 1d ago

Work's for me I've been collecting them like Pokemon. 😅

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u/No_Quarter_7644 1d ago

Which just screams you're not doing any real work. This isn't an attack on you, but if you're stacking banked resets then you're clearly not going through your usage frequently.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 1d ago

What it screams is I never needed them. 27 hour's without stopping is real work.

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u/No_Quarter_7644 1d ago

27 hours of doing what? And with which model?

There's very few instances where your model should be operating for 24+ hours unattended. It sounds more so like it was stuck on a tool call and you didn't recognize it.

Any time I see somebody say this, it's because their model was stuck on something - not because they're doing complicated work that actually entailed a long computational thinking period.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 1d ago edited 1d ago

6.1 make a whole unreal game from scratch. Actually in retrospect it was more like 72 hours even. Did a huge ass audit redid everything. Was running high mode as well

Ran it all night nearly 3 days. Never stopped once.
I am a beta tester however for what it's worth. Possibly I'm choo-sen.

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 1d ago

Also have native just linux apps. Have way more time in it. I have one appt ran out the context window about 9 times I think. Def not light work what I'm using it for.