Performance unacceptable

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
ai, cli, performance

Research direction

Start with the uploaded thread 019fe5fc-ad16-75e0-9613-ec5621ce0401 and the Codex doctor report, then reproduce the behavior on Windows using Visual Studio. Compare the work performed and token usage with the requested simple task; done would require a reproducible improvement in task focus, project-context retention, and performance.

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Description

bug CLI context model-behavior rate-limits
What version of Codex CLI is running?

Latest always

What subscription do you have?

Pro 5x

Which model were you using?

GPT 5.6

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Visual Studio

Codex doctor report
the complete report was uploaded through the terminal, the issue is still the same as before, it has become a bit better but still codex is doing just too much overengineering even though it is told not to do that, and even with over-engineering the code still does not work, codex looses track of the bigger picture and than does things and implements code that is absolutely stupid, you guys have to solve this, Codex just burned through 40% of weekly usage for one simple task and this is something that is super annoying, what do i pay you guys for?
What issue are you seeing?

Performance issues, doing work simply to burn through tokens and not delivering a good result.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019fe5fc-ad16-75e0-9613-ec5621ce0401

What is the expected behavior?

A smart system that understands this the bigger picture of a project? I have build an extra brain so Codex is getting smarter over time but this should not be my work it should be your work to make the system smarter and know things in a bigger sense. it simply bad that codex does not know what it did 5min ago

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