diff --git a/internal/llm/prompt/coder.go b/internal/llm/prompt/coder.go
index df12bd17dc2320cf4f61caab2e1650a11a23a894..bf3eb5ea47d877c8adf21816900d7acb1434aa82 100644
--- a/internal/llm/prompt/coder.go
+++ b/internal/llm/prompt/coder.go
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ func CoderPrompt(p string, contextFiles ...string) string {
 	basePrompt = string(anthropicCoderPrompt)
 	switch p {
 	case string(catwalk.InferenceProviderOpenAI):
-		basePrompt = string(openaiCoderPrompt)
+		// seems to behave better
+		basePrompt = string(coderV2Prompt)
 	case string(catwalk.InferenceProviderGemini):
 		basePrompt = string(geminiCoderPrompt)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/llm/provider/openai.go b/internal/llm/provider/openai.go
index 9b612b64d63a55d278a686ba5b3f7bda7f973c69..8433282fc0b5e771a0a28184895a864b30b0e389 100644
--- a/internal/llm/provider/openai.go
+++ b/internal/llm/provider/openai.go
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@ func (o *openaiClient) preparedParams(messages []openai.ChatCompletionMessagePar
 			params.ReasoningEffort = shared.ReasoningEffortMedium
 		case "high":
 			params.ReasoningEffort = shared.ReasoningEffortHigh
+		case "minimal":
+			params.ReasoningEffort = shared.ReasoningEffort("minimal")
 		default:
 			params.ReasoningEffort = shared.ReasoningEffort(reasoningEffort)
 		}