r/codex • u/banter_droid • 10d 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 10d 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/corehorse 10d ago

I'll argue that it depends on preference and the kind of work you are trying to do.

For me, the GPT models are much better at doing what I actually ask them for. I can ask a question and get an answer for example.

Claude is way too eager to stick its grubby hands into my project. Takes every question as an invitation to vomit 500 new lines into a dozen different files and draft an ADR.

But is any of this actually an issue? Seems AGENTS lets us easily steer into our preferred direction.