I’m afraid to keep working on my main project
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve stopped working on my main project because Codex feels noticeably different and less reliable.
I’ve been testing it on side projects instead, and even with GPT-5.5 on xhigh with my pro plan, I often have to baby-step it just to get decent results. That makes me nervous about letting it touch a codebase that actually matters to me.
From what I’ve read, I’m not the only one seeing this. And honestly, the bigger concern is the grey area around these tools. We build workflows around them, pay for expensive plans, and then quality can shift without clear explanations, stable versioning, or real control over what we’re getting.
For side projects, that’s annoying. For professional work, it’s risky.
Should paid AI coding tools offer more transparency and stable modes? Or is the lesson that depending too much on them is dangerous?