I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with…

I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5 since release, because OpenAI's "codex" model was—in my experience—bad at coding.

Well, their new "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max" model absolutely smokes any model OpenAI has put out before. Much higher code quality and 2-3 times as fast.

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2.4k likes · November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM UTC

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