Mixed
I use it because when I give it those narrowly scoped tasks, it is better at writing good code than any other model
Jaiden333 on Hacker News
In the thread “Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max”, replying to this comment
Helped: Narrowly scoped tasks and iterative feedback loops.
Got in the way: Aggressive prompting needed to override verbose output and test handling.
… I don't use it because of its ability to code for 24 hours. I use it because when I give it those narrowly scoped tasks, it is better at writing good code than any other model. (Because of its latency, I have 2-4 of these conversations going on at the same time). …