Also a codex user but for me brevity is not it's strong suit. I basically have to give it bigger tasks than I am used to to warrant the time it takes to complete. I feel whatever context the tooling adds can also be problematic

> bigger tasks than I am used to

Do they still get split into commits in sensible ways, for you?

I use beads to create tasks and typically it can hammer out a beads task and then commit under the task id