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Codex Issues / #7785

Codex requires constant attention

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Dec 9, 2025 by liammcdermott Closed Dec 9, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.66.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.1-codex-max high

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.17.0-7-generic x86_64 unknown

What issue are you seeing?

It's very frustrating that codex requires constant attention, rarely completes tasks before coming back with the same darn summary + next steps, and requires me to feed it every 1-5 minutes with generic 'go ahead', 'please continue', 'please implement X' messages.

It frequently mentions 'time constraints' or 'scope constraints', and since these did not come from me I can only assume they're from OpenAI. Please lighten up on the constraints, this behaviour is killing my productivity.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019afb01-ab7e-7282-9396-

What is the expected behavior?

Complete the assigned task before coming back and asking for user input.

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 8 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #7581

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etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

Thanks for the bug report. We'll share the feedback with the team responsible for training our codex models. We're tracking this feedback and similar reports so we can make future models more robust and efficient. And thanks for using the /feedback command. That additional information is useful.