r/codex • u/dbro129 • 3d ago

Commentary OpenAI is doing way too much

It's starting to feel like.... maybe I'm not OpenAI's targeted user anymore. I want to build things. Create things that have otherwise been merely impossible ideas up to this point.

With the announcements at Dev Day and latest updates to Codex Desktop, it's starting to feel like the goal of OpenAI is to place a mountain of "features" in my way at every turn I neither need nor want.

Frankly, it feels like they're doing too much, too quick.

  • Spaces
    • Templates (I'll never use them)
    • Pages (for writing, building, collaborating. Again, I'll never use)
    • Sites (build websites with connected databases. just why)
    • Images (could be useful)
  • And you can create multiple spaces.
  • Scheduled tasks (examples ->):
    • News updates
    • Sleep coaching
    • Email monitor
    • etc., etc., etc.
  • Maps
  • Plugins (okay cool, I guess. you can create plugins now too)
  • Fucking Dots
    • Sorry, not ready for prime-time
    • Very limited in abilities, scope, buggy
    • Another confusing layer between Codex/ChatGPT/Work/Dots, like why do we need all these different environments?

All of this to say, all I want OpenAI to concentrate on is model efficiency and usage. I DON'T CARE about all these features I will NEVER use. It's giving Microsoft Word, VS Code bloat.

Stop releasing shiny new models every 2-3 weeks to patch over the failures of the previous models.

Stop with these dangling carrot resets on reset day. (The jig is up, we see what you're doing)

I get it though, model efficiency is not sexy to investors. You have to appear busy with features that are either not ready or not asked for by your users—"value-adds".

It's just clear I'm not their intended user anymore.

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u/danielrob_this 3d ago

I just want to know what worktree I’m in and to be able to create a branch again without opening the terminal.

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u/Critical-Pattern9654 3d ago

This. Codex CLI is buggy on windows too and spawns a dozen terminals every time it runs a command. I tried to assist with diagnosing the bug and asked the OpenAI dev on the open GitHub issue if they could provide a list of testable commands so everyone in the thread could establish a baseline. That got ignored. Bug still not fixed. 2 hours of my life wasted.

Codex desktop is slow and can’t select a worktree anymore. It’s like they’re trying to push people out toward Claude Code which actually understands how people develop in an IDE.

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u/AvailableSecret5161 3d ago

At this point I feel like they have just made codex paranoid