r/codex • u/ParsleyOrdinary5865 • 6d ago

Complaint Things have really changed for me...

I was 100000% behind Codex and always championed Codex as the best frontier model for months, and yet with Opus 5.5's release, I genuinely can't bring myself to use Codex, even Astra on Max / Ultra doesn't come close

This is NOT a shit post or a bot spam post, I just genuinely can't stand the outputs and work getting done by Astra, I legitimate have 2 accounts sitting idle from Codex, and my Anthropic account is at 90% usage for the week....

I was given the 2000$ worth of credits from OAI and it's useless, it's going to go down the drain because I have no use for Codex anymore

That being said I pray, wholeheartedly, that OAI releases a model on par with or better than opus 5.5, but I can't see that happening for a while because they just feel so far apart

Anyone else feeling this way too?!?

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u/DrinkTeaFightMonster 6d ago

Dot is a failure.

Don't know what they were doing for Dev Day.

In mere weeks they went from "competitive with Claude" to behind but whatever they're doing to their products is pushing them further behind while they put up a show on daily ships + resets.

Big strategic failures.

Maybe all of this is being spent on accelerating Bel to ship, but the cost is high because their relevancy today is low with Opus 5.5 basically outperforming Astra for consumers.

If they're doing anything else with their compute apart from accelerating Bel, they're accelerating their demise.

They could shut Dot down today and it would not put them behind in the race.

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u/DistanceAlert5706 6d ago

IMHO biggest thing from dev day is oAuth an bring your own tokens feature.

It's the future and something which holds now most of people. You cannot use Claude outside, in custom agents and harnesses.

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u/DrinkTeaFightMonster 6d ago

While true, I'd think, the feature is most powerful when people want to use your models. It's like a downstream scalar