Developers Complain Codex /goal Burns Tokens Without Results

Users including chipro report that Codex's /goal feature rarely works reliably: without clear completion criteria, the agent loops endlessly, wasting large amounts of time and tokens.

2026-11-11 ~ 2026-11-11 · 2 related posts

• Chipro says Codex's /goal mode 'wastes enormous time and tokens' every time it's enabled — chipro · 2026-11-11
• Open-ended goal loops in Codex burn tokens endlessly, developers report — AIFlow_ML · 2026-11-11