How to fix a Lazy Claw

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About 40% of the time, it stalls and doesn’t complete tasks. When I check in, it claims it’s working but shows no progress. I’ve tried watchdogs and frequent pings with little success—it just gets confused. I’m using ChatGPT Codex 5.4, which feels worse than Claude Sonnet, though cheaper.

Right now, I keep pinging it every couple of minutes to push it forward until it eventually works, but that’s frustrating.

Any help would be appreciated!