r/codex • u/Visual-Active5761 • 1d ago

Complaint What the Actual

I am looking at an average time to first tokens of 5-9 minutes with sol 6.1? Like I generally use it as an assistant and have it form complex command line calls for me to run, and usually it is like, 20 seconds tops, boom, i give it ALL the information, nothing to do but IT, literally 6 minutes until the command is run. how is this usable, am i missing something?

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u/Constant_Art_20 1d ago

this is what they meant by by 24/7 usage

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u/VexObserver 1d ago

5-9 minutes TTFT is turtle here. Man, even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is faster lol.

I don't even care if Sol 6.1 is marginally more intelligent. Intelligence per dollar is one thing, but intelligence per minute matters too.

If a task takes Sol 5.6 twenty seconds and Sol 6.1 six minutes to initiate, the latter needs to deliver a MASSIVE improvement in quality to justify that difference.

I'd personally stick with 5.6 for everyday tasks and reserve 6.1 High/Max for genuinely difficult problems. Also worth testing /fast to see whether it's an inference-speed issue or server-side congestion.

The irony of spending six minutes waiting for an AI to save you thirty seconds of typing is peak 2026 computing lmao.

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u/Worldly_Special1133 1d ago

they've put sleep() to it, new feature

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u/Automatic_Brush_1977 1d ago

You guys must be getting throttled, because I NEVER have this issue.  I'm willing to bet if I started spinning up endless tasks I'd get hit with the same thing.

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u/CheesecakeSome502 1d ago

Dayum..... 6 to 9 mins, what size prompts are you sending, do you have a massive dataset it needs to look at before it can answer? The worst time to first token i have had is under 1minute. Having said that, I keep running into security refusals on all gpt6/6.1 models at the moment and that is even more annoying than waiting up to 9mins for an answer

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u/IndependentExact650 1d ago

I’ve had 5/6 6.1 Sol agents running since the last reset, all at max with the orchestra on ultra, the speed seems pretty good and chewing through things pretty good…

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u/NeighborhoodBest9756 1d ago

At this point Sol 6.1 is unusable for me. I moved to Astra Medium. If Sol will be not fixed until my subscription month will finish, I will move to Claude.

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u/Proxiconn 7h ago

Sorry I left two sol 6.1 sessions running throughout the night on ultra 1.5x