A Research Preview of Codex

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.

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.