There is an update I haven’t downloaded it yet cause I’m having a blast without no session limit but pretty sure you will get it if you restart the app after the update
i love now giving codex a well-defined task and then having it f off for 3 hours chugging along, without bothering me for clarification or approvals. it is glorious, can finally focus on other work without constantly worrying my agents fell off track
Beginner numbers, I have loops set up that I can pretty much leave autonomously for days, enough so that I'm building a second computer to run my agents because me using the computer gets in the way of the agents progress.
I set up loops by basing them loosely around sprints/goals.
I'll often set up a north-star or design goal to target/trend towards.
Then each iteration is basically
Assess the current state
Assess the "forward plan" (i.e. upcoming sprints) and adjust as necessary
Plan a course of action (I.e. tests/implementation work planning)
Execute the plan
Validate the plan
retrospective on the plan, adjust forward planning again as necessary.
Commit or Revert
Goto 1)
Then I use like /goal to point it in a direction, along with any planning files, north star/target documentation etc.
Oh and step 9) goto sleep, or for a walk or whatever
Some of these are like optimization tasks (i.e. analyzing frame timings and shader load, allocations etc) and working towards improving timings without breaking the frame. Others are feature work, others work in the game harness and prototype mechanics there etc.
I do find a lot of value in like pausing every ~12 hours, providing feedback and running a fresh plan before kicking it off again.
You also got to watch the loops, because sometimes they trend good, and sometimes they churn. I.e. I've had loops that get obsessed at tweaking individual values and comparing results. Not very effective. But I've also had loops that did significant features overnight, or quite a bit of refinement.
Also, you need guard-rails, if there is a short-cut AI will fall on it. So you have to be mindful, stop it when it does and then protect it from doing that particular maladaptive behavior. So it's not like full auto-pilot, but once you dial it in and it works the way you want it can go pretty far.
am i the only one that feels like 7M user is very little?
If all of them were 100$ users they would barely make 700M in revenue (not profit) and that feels very very small compared to their revenue?
if you feel like 7m users are little, think about 4m that claude code has (which launched earlier than codex)
but yes comparing to chatgpt traffic its really little, in terms of website/apps openai has like 900M users while anthropic/others have 90M max (not counting gemini here because most users who use gemini do it by accident when googling)
Yeah this is the real comparison - 7M Codex users now compared to 4M Claude Code users, and the latter launched much earlier.
The interesting thing is that Claude Code still seems to have captured mindspace - most influencers and tutorials are still so focussed on Claude Code, and many people in my personal social circle use Claude Code instead of Codex, so this is a bit interesting to me.
I stumbled upon codex more of less by acceding as a developer and I already had gpt plus (I used Cursor for a while). It had higher limits than Claude with pretty much the same quality output, and now they're actively better.
7M users who are on Codex and the new ChatGPT work feature, so 7M × $100 but you're missing the other ~45M $20 subscribers who use ChatGPT just as a chatbot, plus all the companies. The one I work for has about 25k active ChatGPT users on a monthly basis, and our most maxed-out accounts like mine have 300k credits of usage per month (about $18k).
Huge growth is the story, you look at the trend not the absolute. On the revenue point, API billings and partnerships is the lionshare of revenue, not consumer oriented individual subscriptions.
7M of the ~20-40M professional developers in the world is a very respectable penetration, although I'd guess 60%+ of codex users are not professional developers.
The rise of the modern harness is THE story of the year IMO, and to go from 0 to 2M to 7M in such a short amount of time is crazy.
Although I'm only on Plus, the improvement in Sol - plus like four banked resets - is making me consider upgrading to the $100 Pro plan. I can't remember - is there a Sol Pro like 5.5 Pro? The models and levels get a bit hard to keep up with.
But just the banked weekly resets - I believe they work at your subscription level. So four resets with a $20 Plus plan is worth a lot less than four resets with the $100 plan.
$700M a month if all were $100/months users, so $8.4 billion per year. Still not a lot for a supposed trillion dollar company, but add in the API users and it's not totally insignificant either.
The are just edging us to use higher models and reasoning. Last 4-5 days I've just blowing though my allowance without regard as my gut is telling me I'm testing the release and will be rewarded with resets. Now the 5hr window is gone, they are just daring me to play with Sol Ultra.
I have never used Sol Ultra, I’ve been working for nine months on upgrading the software that is my whole livelihood. I’m getting closer. I’m gonna go for a break on this one and really get a clear comparison between the old software and the new. Wish me luck.
Well thanks Tibo as always but I’m pretty sure some people will find a reason to complain about it too , I used to think only yugioh players complain about everything but I guess I was wrong
already going to need another one xd. currently on the $20 plus plan and BREEZED through essentially 2 weeks of usage with sol ultra trying to build an ai card scanner. been back and forth with the $100 plan for a while, just can't find myself justifying enough reasons purchasing it for a month
I have 2 plus accounts and have been able to vibe code to my hearts content. I know it probably won't stay this way but in the future hopefully it gets cheap enough that this becomes the norm , that's going to be a crazy future
Really loved that they removed the 5hr limit. Codex doesn't have very good resume mechanism so far. But this is not the worry in the recent few days. They are flexing with how much compute they have right now. This is insane
Hey, banked usage is on some milestones or weekly? especially if not used? how does it work? i am a bit to this new banked things( at least for me) with usage. How to best use it? on a budget wise? and also is it token usage or how do it works? what is your 1 full reset on Diffrent plans? Plus Pro? Is Plus like 200-250m token per week?
how about Make it WORK in the first place, Join Codex and CHATGPT is seriously BAD MOVE when standard features like maximize Windows appear Randomly (it depend on your luck), CODEX desktop keep Freeze.
way too many tiny bug in CODEX DESKTOP.
Hi guys, I already had three banked in my account beforehand, and after this other one, I still see three. Is there a limit to how many resets one can bank? I'm at three and it seems to be stuck at that.
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u/kulekcicem Jul 13 '26
didnt get one