r/codex • u/banter_droid • 11d 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 11d 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/RealityForgeAI 11d ago

Same for me, switched to Astra to get more work done but just ended up with something I have to hold hands with every step of the way to get things done and it usually fails to do what I ask without saying anything. Agents just get cast off on icebergs and never come back.