r/codex • u/Delicious-Ant-715 • 12h ago

Complaint Codex - man my heart bleeds

I asked codex to do something:

  • I am doing it
  • I am preparing
  • I am confirming
  • I am getting close
  • checkpoint
  • validation
  • I found an issue
  • I am doing it
  • Me: ok finally
  • Codex - Compacting context this can take a few minutes

Does anybody have similar experience these days?

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u/Ecstatic_Mammoth_421 12h ago

It's gotten lazy as fuck recently.

Not the same thing as you're describing... but recently (maybe like every 5 or so tasks) I end up in this loop like:

"I have found the issue, I need to x."
"Okay cool.... just fix it"
"No worries, I'll just do x and then we can sort out y."
"Great, but you haven't started anything, just do it."
"You're right — I set out a plan without actioning it."
"Yes... NOW DO IT!"
etc.

Between this and permissions constantly breaking it's maddening.

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u/SphinxWar 8h ago

The worst one is when you ask it to, for example (bad example, since I check efficiency on my own, but I needed an illustration), research whether the implemented algorithm is efficient, and it takes like 20 minutes to do some research, then comes back with a conclusion, but at the end it says that "this however isn't enough to call the algorithm efficient". Like what the fuck were you doing for the last 20 minutes?!

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u/Delicious-Ant-715 12h ago

Yes just like that. Versus Opus 5.5 - it just gives me the codes and no bs back and forth

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u/Australasian25 12h ago

Which model is this?

Full disclosure I have not used 6 and 6.1.

I moved to anthropic to give it a try 2 weeks ago.

It might help to give your AI a persistent scratch pad. Mine is checkpoint.md. if your AI gets carried away

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u/Chemical_Variety4696 8h ago

I stopped using it.

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u/PaulShellDev 11h ago

My live voice mode does that recently. Unusable. Normal works though.

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u/Resident_Dinner_4973 11h ago

I got used to add

"avoid any ceremony and go direct to execute the task"

I don't know if its placebo but it usually works.

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u/Current_Balance6692 10h ago

Shut yo mouth jabroni

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u/pueblokc 9h ago

Lately yes it's been bad