Codex Has Become Unreliable and I Will Not Continue Using It Next Month
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 14, 2026 by sarbumarius
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.139.0
What subscription do you have?
pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5 mediu
What platform is your computer?
Linux 5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6.x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
_No response_
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
2 3 messages and hit the limit pro....LOL Another issue is that GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark appears as included with the Pro subscription, but I do not actually have access to it inside Codex. It shows up as if it should be available, but I cannot select it or save it as the model I want to use.
So from my point of view, the subscription advertises access to a model that I cannot properly use in practice.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019ec57a-4572-78b0-8590-cc9b45b25cdb
What is the expected behavior?
Lately, everything I’ve done through Codex has been useless, incomplete, or intentionally wrong. I gave up and ended up finishing most of it myself.
The usage limit was consumed almost immediately. It’s not just that the service isn’t worth using when I still have to solve everything myself, but the fact that I’m also paying for it makes it even worse.
Codex has serious reliability issues. One day it works, the next day it creates more problems than it solves. Sometimes it hits an error, doesn’t know how to fix it, then rolls back changes in a way that can throw the project two days behind. Luckily, I had Git and was able to recover my work.
On top of that, I can’t find Spark in the models, even though it appears to be included and available in the subscription. Overall, the experience has been inconsistent, incomplete, and extremely frustrating.
Additional information
_No response_