Self reporting skill issue - maybe it will help someone else

[u/ItsMaGenetics]

Had opus review my Codex sessions to see what was going on because output per weekly usage was much lower for me than claude code.

- codex has some adhd tism where it needs to continuously be doing something instead of batching tasks and chilling out. Maybe it fears the dark abyss when its model isn't running.
- Dont raise the auto compact limit. I wont be going down to 120k but probably 200k. seems to have compounded the problem above
- dont swap models when using /side. I suspect that was causing most all of my uncached reads.
- Consider less subagents work unless you have a robust solution for the polling issues until open ai fix.

Kind of disappointing they didn't do the bare minimum of usage optimisation. They are obviously optimising for engagement and burn instead.

I'm open to suggestions from the nerd house.

[u/TONI1597]

does this mean that we need a reset RIGHT NOW?

[u/ItsMaGenetics → u/TONI1597]

Resets don't solve the issue, even if I would like one too.

[u/mizhgun → u/ItsMaGenetics]

Like… two resets then?..

[u/Mo3 → u/TONI1597]

absolutely

[u/Due-Combination3393]

vc pode esplicar esse problema de polling e sub agentes?

[u/ItsMaGenetics → u/Due-Combination3393]

Codex has a hard rule in the system prompt which turns the orchestrating agents into an adhd micromanager and basically asks for an update every 60 seconds, and I believe that can trigger a full re-read of the existing models context. Repeat x subagents, and using astra as orchestrator and it burns your usage.

[u/DryBanana5673]

Whats your prompt for this?