I think codex got much faster for smaller tasks in the last few months. Especially if you turn thinking down to medium.
replyI think the slow feeling is a UI thing in codex
replyI realize my comment was unclear. I use codex the CLI all the time, but generally with this invocation: `codex --full-auto -m gpt-5.2`
replyHowever, when I use the 5.2codex model, I've found it to be very slow and worse (hard to quantify, but I preferred straight-up 5.2 output).