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I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but I just wasted several hours wrestling codex to make it behave. Here's my workflow that keeps failing: - it writes some c

I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but I just wasted several hours wrestling codex to make it behave. Here's my workflow that keeps failing: - it writes some code. It looks good a first glance - I push it to github - automated tests on github show that there's a problem - go back to codex and ask it to fix it - it does stuff. It looks good again. Now what do I do? If I ask it to push again to github, then it will often create a pull request that doesn't include stuff from the first pull request, but it's not a pull request that stacks on top of the previous pull request, it's a pull request that stacks on top of main. When asked to write something that called out to gpt-4.1-mini, it used openai.ChatCompletion.create (!?!!?) I just found myself using claude to fix codex's mistakes.

landl0rd 1y ago
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csomar 1y ago
I think you need to run the tests locally before you push the PR. I actually think you need to (somehow?) make this part of the generation process before Codex proposes the changes.
bargainbin 1y ago
I have this issue with Devin. Given my limited knowledge of how these work, I believe there is simply too much context for it to take a holistic view of the task and finish accordingly. If both OpenAI and Devin are falling into the same pattern then that’s a good indication there’s a fundamental problem to be solved here.
fcoury 1y ago
I upgraded to Pro just because of Codex and I am really not impressed. Granted, I am using rust so that may be the issue (or skill issue on my end too). One of the things I am constantly struggling with is that the containers they use are having issues to fetch anything from the internet: error: failed to get `anyhow` as a dependency of package `yawl-core v0.1.0 (/wor kspace/yawl/core)` Caused by: download of config.json failed Caused by: failed to download from `https://index.crates.io/config.json` Caused by: [7] Could not connect to server (Failed to connect to proxy port 8080 after 30 65 ms: Could not connect to server) Hopefully they fix this and it gets better with time, but I am not going to renew past this month otherwise.
- hmottestad 1y ago
  You can specify a startup script for your environment in the Edit -> adbvaned section. The code placed there will run before they cut off the internet access. Also worth noting that it uses a proxy stored in $http_proxy. Took me an few hours today to figure out how to install maven and have it download all the dependencies. Spent an hour trying to figure out why sudo apt-get update was failing, it was because I was was using sudo!

landl0rd 1y ago

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csomar 1y ago

I think you need to run the tests locally before you push the PR. I actually think you need to (somehow?) make this part of the generation process before Codex proposes the changes.

bargainbin 1y ago

I have this issue with Devin. Given my limited knowledge of how these work, I believe there is simply too much context for it to take a holistic view of the task and finish accordingly. If both OpenAI and Devin are falling into the same pattern then that’s a good indication there’s a fundamental problem to be solved here.

fcoury 1y ago

I upgraded to Pro just because of Codex and I am really not impressed. Granted, I am using rust so that may be the issue (or skill issue on my end too). One of the things I am constantly struggling with is that the containers they use are having issues to fetch anything from the internet: error: failed to get `anyhow` as a dependency of package `yawl-core v0.1.0 (/wor kspace/yawl/core)` Caused by: download of config.json failed Caused by: failed to download from `https://index.crates.io/config.json` Caused by: [7] Could not connect to server (Failed to connect to proxy port 8080 after 30 65 ms: Could not connect to server) Hopefully they fix this and it gets better with time, but I am not going to renew past this month otherwise.

hmottestad 1y ago
You can specify a startup script for your environment in the Edit -> adbvaned section. The code placed there will run before they cut off the internet access. Also worth noting that it uses a proxy stored in $http_proxy. Took me an few hours today to figure out how to install maven and have it download all the dependencies. Spent an hour trying to figure out why sudo apt-get update was failing, it was because I was was using sudo!