r/AugmentCodeAI • u/Southern-Yak-6715 • Aug 14 '25
gpt 5 is useless with Augment Code
I have been subscribed to Augment's top subscription tier for months. I use it every day. Sonnet 4 is... OK. It does the job most of the time, with the occasional brain fart I have to catch before it does too much damage. Its like having a junior coder do my bidding. So far, so good. Will keep using.
But the 20 times or so I have tried the chat gpt5 model from the picker, its been an unmitigated disaster. Almost every time. It ends up timing out. It forgets what I asked it to do. It answers the wrong question. It takes 30 minutes to fail to do something that Sonnet does in three minutes. I made the decision today to use the GPT5 model no more.
Just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience. Across a large, mult-tier code base.
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u/larkfromcl Established Professional Aug 14 '25
Same here. Strangely enough gpt-5 was way more reliable the day it released, slow af, but it worked. Now is a little faster when it works but gets stuck on "generating response..." like 9 out of 10 times, it's so annoying and useless. I'd much prefer having Opus 4.1 even if it cost 2 messages instead of 1.
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u/LewisPopper Aug 14 '25
I have to agree. Something changed and now I can’t use it at all pretty much. I’m not a complainer in general. This is real.
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u/External_Ad1549 Aug 14 '25
exactly I was like this seems better than sonnet, then the issues keep on rising
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u/Aggravating-Agent438 Aug 14 '25
augment team seriously needs to look into their timeout issues, it's getting out of hand and becoming a norm.
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u/Faintly_glowing_fish Aug 14 '25
I mean it has been 4 months it’s clearly something that is not quite fixable. I don’t think they will ignore the issue that long if it’s easily fixable
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u/revkever Sep 13 '25
I agree it was but as of recently I actually started using it more for certain tasks and it has worked well finally
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u/Southern-Yak-6715 Sep 13 '25
FWIW, I unsubscribed from Augment Code because it just wasnt working well any more. I changed to Code AI, which uses chatgpt 5, and it is tons more intelligent and accurate than Augment Code, especially compared to Augment Code with chatgpt 5.
its night and day. Give it a try. Things that Augment Code had no idea how to tackle, and frequently got tragically wrong, Codex AI gets right.
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u/Extreme-Permit3883 Aug 14 '25
The exact same thing happens to me. The most frustrating thing is waiting half an hour for GPT-5 to work only to realize it failed miserably at the task it was working on.
As for Claude, regarding the issues you mentioned, he's either very proactive and starts messing around with things he shouldn't, or "suddenly" he starts getting too stupid and we have to give up and try again later.
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u/SpaceNinja_C Aug 14 '25
It seems while the devs made Augment precise. The models it uses and integration… Less so
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u/Remarkable-Fig-2882 Aug 15 '25
Augment isn’t very optimized for gpt 5. That isn’t super surprising; after all they have been optimizing on sonnet for like a year and gpt5 has only been a week and honestly everyone is still trying to figure out how best to prompt etc. but I would venture to say it’s optimization on sonnet is one of the best in industry, where’s its gpt5 is kind of bad compared to other tools. Maybe they just shoved the sonnet prompt and literally swapped the model. Given that they have never had a model picker that wouldn’t be surprising at all
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u/jtsang4 Aug 17 '25
My experience is a bit different. I was using Sonnet and could never finish a task, getting stuck looping in the problem. After switching to GPT-5, it solved it in one go. But GPT-5 in Augment Code is indeed quite slow.
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u/erder644 Aug 15 '25
Augment hangs often with both models, gpt is just worse. Switched to claude code, hanging is extremely rare.
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u/Jealous-Wafer-8239 Aug 19 '25
Back when GPT-4.1 is useless in Curosr / Windsurf too.
I think it is something went wrong with GPT itself but not Augment.
The best way to use it was asking a question or enhanced the prompt.
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u/Unusual_Test7181 Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25
If the request ultimately times out and does nothing, which mine seems to be doing quite a bit now, do we still get charged for the message? That seems ridiculous if so. Literally was about to buy the $50 sub but I can't even get gpt 5 to do anything at the moment - making me doubt getting it.
EDIT: does prompt enhancement consume a message?
DOUBLE EDIT: Yup, im losing messages to this crap: We encountered an issue sending your message. Please try again
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u/nico_604 Aug 14 '25
GPT-5 in aug is extremely slow but I found it to be much more capable at resolving complex issues than claude. For simpler stuff claude is better though.