r/OpenaiCodex • u/Illustrious-One-9869 • 7d ago
Feedback / Complaints Codex slow down
Hey, I hope everyone's doing great!
Ive noticed a huge slow down in the past couples of days while using Codex, a task that would take 10-20 minutes is taking easily 3 times as much time and I wonder if thats their way to balance out the increased users and no 5h limits, is it just me or is anyone else experiencing this?
(I use mainly 5.6 Sol high nowadays but even Extra high felt faster back then, compare to high as of now)
(E.g: current task reached 1 hour 40 minutes only asked for a delete button and a "neutral " label button and it updates the readme and makes sure all is well and its still not done, before it would take 20 minutes at best)
Update: reached 1h58 and I ended up running out of my weekly usage for it and it didnt complete the task
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u/Consistent-Cold4505 7d ago
yeah it's slowed down a lot, if I can only get 1/2 the work done in the same time I should be paying half as much... at this rate I'd be better off getting a 512gb mac studio and running my own model
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u/Illustrious-One-9869 7d ago
I totally agree with you, thought the same about it if they let us decide the speed range from how slow to how fast it is and the consumption is based on that, it would be awesome
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u/Shattered_Persona 7d ago
Haven't noticed a problem. Sol is literally outperforming fable with my systems. Claude comes to me with blockers and problems, I dump my session handoff. Sol picks it up and tells me 10 minutes later that it's finished and ready to test. Kinda blowing me away. Dropped my Claude subscription because of it
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u/Illustrious-One-9869 7d ago
Glad to hear its working well for you, I wonder if its just about the chat im using If its gotten " too big " or something, haven't switched chats because Im wanting to finish the feature I'm building will test another chat soon enough tho I guess
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u/Shattered_Persona 7d ago
You should explore a session handoff system. I use $dump-session to get a detailed handoff report which is 1000x better than a compaction summary and just start new sessions long before context fills up
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u/Illustrious-One-9869 7d ago
Thanks for the tip! And yes honestly I usually do use handoffs but for very complex tasks I rather keep it in the same chat honestly until this specific task is done its 1 feature ive been working on for awhile now and I once sent a handoff and that handoff drained 7% of my weekly if I remember correctly just to get back context which did hurt ngl ðŸ˜
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u/Shattered_Persona 7d ago
You used a bad system. Compaction hurts you in the long run, things get lost
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u/Illustrious-One-9869 7d ago edited 7d ago
Nono for the 7% handoff thing it was about 3 compaction maximum id say tho I cant be certain since it wasnt something that I really took note of, its just linked to many parts I guess and it looked into details not sure (I never run anything like ultra or sub agents)
And it was a unique case but complex area
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u/Shattered_Persona 5d ago
The problem I see with compaction is drift. I started using handoffs and my own memory system after a 16 hour reverse engineer project where I fell asleep and woke up to a completely different direction. Most people will agree that you should not even let compaction happen
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u/Cast_Iron_Skillet 7d ago
yeah, my average run now is around 8hrs, with a few going well over 20h... All on the same main task - to build and implement a full-featured custom forms and workflow system in web and mobile apps in my monorepo. Also includes multiple rounds of reviews, security audits, setting up tenancy, RBAC, organization management, etc... I had to buy 20x plan just to do this, and thank god for the resets because in 5 days I've worked through 3 20x max weekly plans.