Comment by logicallee

I'm not sure if you're still reading comments, but in my experience the people who are elated at how well agents perform, versus your experience:

> but the dissonance between what I'm seeing online and what I'm able to achieve is doing my head in.

... could be due to your choice to use Codex, which is OpenAI's coding agent. The stellar reports you're reading online are mostly about Claude Code. (People say so.)

Try your next project in Claude code. I am on the Max plan, which includes Claude code at the flat rate, and have had just as good an experience as the online reports I've read.