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Codex
Raised as a usability problem by 90 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 73 threads.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Agent is slow and gives no text about what it is doingUnreviewed
20252026- Agent is very slow and its output needs constant fixing2026-02-09
- Agent takes unrequested actions and makes unasked-for decisions, frustrating the user2025-12-26
- Agent is very slow and gives no text explaining what it is doing2025-10-17
Asks approval for every single command, interrupting workUnreviewed
20252026- Stops to ask for approval on every individual command, which is extremely annoying2026-04-16
- Asks approval for every trivial read command, too many repeated prompts2026-02-19
- Repeatedly asks permission for the same command and can't persist approval2025-12-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Usage view moved without notice, so user thought the feature was removed and searched settings2026-11-03
- Prompt wording is ambiguous and reuses accept-style buttons, a dark pattern pushing users into training consent2026-11-03
- Linking each machine to another is manual, and the Dot only reaches one linked machine at a time2026-10-21
- Keeps halting with capacity messages, so work stops repeatedly until the user gives up2026-10-19
- Conversations get permanently locked, and modes like Chat/Work/Cloud are confusing to tell apart2026-10-18
- Generated interfaces include clutter and unnecessary explanatory text2026-10-18
- Can't get Codex to control its own browser; fan spins out of control2026-10-18
- Performance is abysmal, making the app slow to interact with in Firefox2026-10-16
- Dragging a file into the terminal pastes the path, which the tool treats as an image and burns tokens on2026-10-13
- Codex's consumer-oriented user experience is a mess, hard to use2026-10-12
- Hooks run in the daemon's environment, and -c flags silently bypass the daemon2026-10-12
- Configuration is incomprehensible and a moving target across chat, work, remote and cloud clients2026-10-12
- Sessions mix contexts and prompt history; randomly switches to read-only and loses tool access2026-10-07
- Cannot delete payment details without deleting the entire account2026-10-04
- Error message was wrong, misleading about the actual problem2026-09-26
- No GUI for profiles or custom endpoints; config.toml is hard to set up and experience is primitive2026-09-23
- Usage reset timing is confusing; can't reset the 5h window alone2026-09-22
- Parent agent sometimes doesn't know why the child agent died2026-09-21
- Full of papercuts, making them unpleasant to use2026-09-11
- Long, weirdly worded prose that jumps between abstraction levels, hard to follow2026-09-04
- Can't tell which chats sync across devices and where chats are buried2026-09-01
- Keeps making small changes then stopping to ask for confirmation, even when asked for bigger chunks2026-08-22
- Their terminal UI is terrible compared to Grok Build's2026-08-22
- Finds the tool similarly complex and confusing to use2026-08-21
- Confusing naming: app renamed and merged, now switching between ChatGPT and Codex inside it2026-08-21
- App freezes from memory leak and triggers unexpected macOS permission prompts for unrelated folders2026-08-13
- GUI slows to a crawl in long sessions, especially with rendered math2026-08-13
- Existing way of commenting on selected content is not very helpful2026-08-13
- Common git push commands blocked by classifier claiming it can't verify repository privacy2026-08-10
- Auto mode rejects routine git operations, blocking the user's normal work2026-08-06
- Four different overlapping ways to switch app modes and states, confusing to use2026-08-03
- Native Codex app pegs all CPU cores at 100% while idle2026-07-31
- Usage limit resets are inconsistent, and banked resets expire unused, so users must use or lose them2026-07-20
- Cannot disable auto-compaction or go back to pre-compact conversation history2026-07-19
- Auto-compaction fires unpredictably, can't be disabled, and corrupts sessions2026-07-19
- App is buggy, hogs CPU and memory, and is frozen most of the time2026-07-16
- Can't figure out what went wrong when multi-agent features fail2026-07-14
- Usage page in settings almost never loads2026-07-08
- Becomes very slow to interact with as the chat grows longer2026-06-22
- App spins all CPU cores and reacts slowly to input when a conversation is open2026-06-22
- Browser plugin often fails, and clicking a button takes minutes2026-06-22
- Keeps making errors even after the person provides the correct documentation2026-06-11
- Gets stuck in loops and needs repeated prompting to stop, hard to recover2026-05-29
- Popups and warnings about unknown MCPs are confusing; /mcp output is cryptic2026-05-29
- Generated sites use emoji icons and blue-on-black colours, hurting accessibility2026-05-28
- Chats freeze the UI and lag once they become long2026-05-19
- Can't create a new task because repo selection is disabled2026-05-15
- Mobile users must go through a non-intuitive path and cannot pick the model2026-05-15
- Interface is a plain text stream like a decades-old terminal, lacking better ways to review and manage work2026-05-15
- Installation on a fresh Windows machine fails with an obscure error2026-05-15