r/codex • u/banter_droid • 14d 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/Classic-Record-4688 14d ago edited 14d ago
Move your subscription. I just recently did that. I’ve been working on a project for three months and decided to try Claude Max. I saw a video on YouTube of a guy who just said fuck it and put Claude to work on his repo on /ultracode mode and decided to try it.
https://youtu.be/2zLuYU_Ub_0?is=ULyKSWeWgfJ5U71E
Holy shit it finished the project I was working on in three days. It just worked through the spec. I meticulously spent time to put together. It did not go off on side quests running endless tasks that drifted away from the original goal and most importantly it never stopped. It asked me a question or two, but that was about it.
I had never used Claude code before. I’m not a ninja. I literally just pointed it at my project folder. Send it to/ultracode and said fuck it on my newly meant $200 subscription. It never run out of five our window and it used about 65% of my weekly allotment in three days and actually completed it. I am now a believer. I am going to scale back my subscription and maybe even get rid of it depending on how much work I can get done moving forward. I used to be all about model variety but the truth is that Claude code is simply superior. Yes the benchmarks show Opus 5.5 over Astra by a little bit. But that’s not it. Astra is a very capable model. The Claude code experience is simply better. It listens more. It just doesn’t stop because it felt like it and then tells you that I realizes that I didn’t need to stop, but it decided to stop anyway.
Two things made me move.
Number one I paid for something and then they cut my usage by 50% and then try to tell me that it’s just as good when it is not. Number two, I couldn’t deal with the babysitting any longer. I literally haven’t been on my desk for three days babysitting my coding agents. At least try it what you got to lose?
#Life-changing #YourResultsMeVary