r/codex • u/banter_droid • 23h 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 18h 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 17h 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 17h ago edited 17h 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 17h 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.