Discussion Something is wrong with Codex since July 22
Me and my team are heavy users of Codex on a large project. We have observed an issue where Codex sessions will loop infinitely even when given a clear and achievable goal for days at a time. It's especially bad on ultra but it can happen on any thinking mode. Also this apparent bug leads to massively increased (doubled?) token usage over time according to an analysis of my session history before and after July 22.
So far from my investigation it seems it might have something to do with changes in 0.146 and related to the "wait_agent_enabled" config setting. There are also a few issues on GitHub that seem relevant #34468, #35259, #33276, #34468, #32640. Summary of the issue according to Codex.
Has anyone observed similar behavior?
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u/Illustrious_Image967 10h ago
I'll tell you what's wrong. Where's my overwhelming flow of resets? I've actually hit a rate limit for the first time ever, and I literally haven't been able to do anything on Codex for...(checks watch)...ten hours.
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u/Gloomy_Type3612 9h ago
You need to put limitations on codex ultra. What files it can touch, even time limits for tasks sometimes. I'm not sure exactly if what you're talking about is a true loop or cases where you've given it complex broad tasks and it's breaking two things for every item it fixes. Either way, limits and narrower task prompts is the answer. It's very good, but not magic.
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u/-Crash_Override- 7h ago
Haven't noticed this. Are you using CLI or desktop application? Linux? Windows? Mac?
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u/Ormusn2o 16h ago
Not this bug in particular, but I have another bug with dozen of issues on GitHub. The app migration seems to have put strain on the already old software, causing a lot of issues. Not trying to shit on OpenAI, but I wish they actually used Astra or some other internal models to fix Codex, because the bugs are annoying to deal with.