Card #458 · OpenAI Platform & APIs
Codex performance degradation and stability issues
We are experiencing severe performance issues where Codex becomes extremely slow, freezes for minutes, or gets stuck in the middle of tasks without progress. These stability problems make the tool nearly unusable for completing work.
Pain score
0.80/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.87upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
Codex is not merely slow; it repeatedly becomes stuck in the middle of tasks, showing no progress even after prolonged waiting, which is truly exasperating.
instead of a text with updates, i get a 20 minute freeze with the “im finished now” message eventually popping up.
Codex is not merely slow; it repeatedly becomes stuck in the middle of tasks, showing no progress even after prolonged waiting, which is truly exasperating.
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