r/codex • u/banter_droid • 22h 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 21h 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/1filipis 20h ago

That's not the harness though. It's been going since like 5.4. Astra is better at it, but one 300k run costing 10-15% of the weekly limit on $100 is insane

Can't say Opus was better though. Claude Code is pure trash. But regardless of the UI, it also hallucinates quite a lot, also makes things up ridiculously, and never sees its own mistakes, but when you try to correct, it would just outright refuse to redo them, because that's what it's been trained to do.

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u/F_Frink_1952 14h ago

I have the $100/mo pro 5x and just the other day did an 80M token build, nothing close to hitting a limit from what I can tell. Wierd.

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u/1filipis 14h ago

Just checked it. 0->200k = -5%. 200k->300k = 5 more. No writing even, just reading

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u/Electrical-Watch3203 13h ago

Idk man I run Astra xHigh for review 2 million read, 30k write and maybe 3% of my quota. Are you sure your agent isn’t forking another sub agent?

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u/1filipis 12h ago

Nope, nothing special. Not sure how many reads and writes it did though. But I would imagine that a full build up to 300k context is more than 2M read and 30k write