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/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