DEV Community: Gömöri Gábor

i built a small tool because my codex sessions kept getting worse

Gömöri Gábor — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:54:36 +0000

hi, i'm gábor, a solo developer from hungary.

a few months ago i noticed something annoying. my long codex sessions slowly got worse. after enough compactions the model started forgetting decisions i made earlier, redoing work that was already done, or ignoring constraints i gave it. i didn't notice right away. the session just felt heavier and heavier, and i was burning time and usage on it.
so i built freshthread.

it's a small windows app that sits next to codex. it shows how loaded the current session is, live. when i decide it's time, one click opens a fresh codex task, and my goals, decisions, finished work and next steps come with me. no copy-pasting, no starting from zero.

a few things were important to me while building it:

session data stays on your computer
the part that connects to codex is open source, so anyone can check what the app receives
it only goes online for updates, and for bug reports if you choose to send one

it's a free beta for windows right now. i launched a few days ago and honestly, it's been pretty quiet. which is fine, i'm learning that building is the easy part.

with all the plan and usage changes this week, wasting usage on a tired session hurts even more. so i'm curious:
do you notice long codex sessions getting worse? what do you do about it?

any feedback helps, even "i wouldn't use this, because...".

👉 https://freshthread.netlify.app
github: https://github.com/GG95-lab/FreshThread-BETA-version

I shipped my first real app. Almost nobody noticed.

Gömöri Gábor — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:48:56 +0000

For the past few months i've been working on it full steam. i tried to pay attention to a lot of details.
It solves a problem i kept running into myself: long Codex sessions slowly get worse. After enough compactions the model starts forgetting decisions, repeats work, or loses track of constraints, wasting time and money. You don't notice it right away, you just feel the session getting heavier. but what i noticed is that there's basically zero interest (launched 3 days ago) and because of that i started doubting whether this is really just a mirage born in my head... what do you think. maybe i've just reached the hardest stage of the work? how do you see it?

Why long Codex sessions started costing me hours

Gömöri Gábor — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:11:39 +0000

I use Codex heavily, and after enough compactions I started noticing the same pattern: the model would forget things, get confused, and I’d spend time repeating context or going in circles.

That’s why I built FreshThread, a small Windows tool that tracks session health and helps move the important context into a fresh session.

Windows beta: https://freshthread.netlify.app/