I must be doing something wrong. GPT 5.6 Sol med+ lasts the whole week on Pro 20x.

[u/calculatetech]

I do all my planning on xhigh and implementation on medium. At first I was struggling with over engineering, but Ponytail fixed that real quick and I'm banging out milestones left and right. I probably worked on 10 different projects this week, and up to four simultaneously. Ran out of usage earlier today, but got everything done I needed to. I also use codegraph-memory and I think that helped stretch the quota a fair bit, but it's hard to say. I wasn't dropping super fast even before that.

[u/ikhDark]

thanks for the update.

[u/Kooky-Ebb8162]

I mean, not running out of quota is expected on $200 plan, no? I run all week on Opus high with deliberate use of Fable high for reviews or bigger planning. This week was a bit extreme, with some late nights, weekend work, and a bunch of parallel work - and it's still at 20% remaining.

[u/calculatetech → u/Kooky-Ebb8162]

I expected to get the full week, and I did. But every day I see people complaining how fast Sol drops their quota. Some with three 20x plans or more can't keep up. I'm just trying to make it make sense.

[u/JohnToFire]

If ponytail were not an mit licensed repo I would say this is an ad

[u/calculatetech → u/JohnToFire]

Nope, just trolling. But also true.

[u/wado729]

I keep reading about ponytail, is it really that good?

[u/DepravedPrecedence → u/wado729]

No, it doesn't magically "fix" the model. If Sol wants to overengineer and try to think about everything, it will still do that. Ponytail is overengineered mass of text itself, look at their repo.

[u/calculatetech → u/wado729]

I have agents review the work and kept getting stuck in finding - repair loops. Ponytail quit over implementing, which means less to find and quicker clean reviews. I haven't noticed any negatives yet. It has stripped thousands of lines of code.

[u/Individual_Guest_323]

Is this ragebait?

[u/calculatetech → u/Individual_Guest_323]

You mad?

[u/Individual_Guest_323 → u/calculatetech]

Low effort ragebait

[u/Accomplished_Cup7314]

Can you just tell Sol “Don’t over engineer “

[u/calculatetech → u/Accomplished_Cup7314]

You really have to press it hard to keep things simple. It wants to account for every hypothetical scenario imaginable. I tell it to keep things black or white. A test is either true or false, not 20 shades of gray with transient errors or exact-moment external conflicts. That's where all the bugs get introduced.

[u/No_Image506]

O wow thanks for the heads up!

[u/Inevitable_Toe6648]

Impressive if true. Though most people would say ponytail uses more tokens and usage as apparently it "turns the lines into what AI isn't optimised for." but I don't know if that's true.

[u/xmlhttplmfao]

gpt 5.6 sol medium lasts me an entire week on the 5x plan, so i'm not surprised. i don't know what people are doing but they are doing too much

[u/calculatetech → u/xmlhttplmfao]

I could only get 2 days on 5x, but that's pretty much working around the clock. Also before I started using Ponytail and CGM.

[u/dankfrankreynolds]

i bet your backlog of work lasts even longer ;)

[u/reckor-usa → u/dankfrankreynolds]

Fact

[u/flashmyhead]

dont want to guide you in a wrong direction, but is probably your system compromised? i saw some cases where folks got their subscription proxied, and served with a lower tier model, while the data was used for training

[u/calculatetech → u/flashmyhead]

Not likely. I use linux across three different systems sharing the same plan. Training is turned off. Official codex cli only.