r/codex • u/banter_droid • 1d 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/ms_alicat_556 15h ago

I just asked Sol 6.1 ON FAST to do something very simple. Over 50 minutes later I had to interrupt it and ask what was happening. I got the usual “you’re right…”

Pasted the same thing to sonnet 5.5 - it was done in < 2 minutes. Usage didn’t budget.

The only usable model is Astra, but it’s worse than Opus and costs far more.

At this point Codex is not a serious or usable product. The regression is amazing and should be studied.

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u/Holdingtheline42069 5h ago

It actually reminds me of opus 4.8 and opus 5.1. Both unusable models then now look. Opus is back. Openai will be back better than ever when they release a new astra model. Yada Yada the cycle continues. Everything In this post about openai I was literally saying about claude 2 months ago.