Ask HN: Codex is too slow. Is there any solution?

5•rule2025•1d ago

The codex backend is of good quality, the frontend is average, but most importantly it is too slow. I wonder if OpenAI will improve it.

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esafak•1d ago

Sonnet and Gemini are good and fast. Can't speak for Grok.

muzani•6h ago

Grok Turbo is fast.

moomoo11•1d ago

It seems to work with less issues than CC opus.

I don’t mind if it takes longer as long as the answer is correct more often.

You can always be doing more work while one chat is working..

naiv•17h ago

the new 0.47 has a better performance now imho

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