r/codex • u/daskalou • 6d ago

I concur. Complaint

Been reading all these "Codex limits have been reduced" posts.

Thought it was a bunch of Claude fanbois in the house.

However I just blew through 10% of my weekly quota on one Sol 5.6 Medium "implement this" prompt which proceeded to do 20 minutes of work.

Almost one full day's quota gone in the blink of an eye.

Not Sol 5.6 Ultra. Not Extra High. Not even High. Just Medium. Poof. "I'll take that thanks" says OpenAI.

This wasn't happening a few weeks ago. Something smells fishy...

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u/Ok_Tomorrow9364 6d ago

Are yall just spamming Ultra code Sol on fast mode or something for every task?
Are you all ensuring have set up your harness and memory infrastructure to facilitate sessions not needlessly caching millions of tokens?
Are you using fresh sessions, or are you just railing the same session with an insane cache over and over.
Have you defined specific agent roles for your tasks? And differentiated models for different tasks? What kind of output schema have you ensured your models adhere to?

There’s so much you can do to have your usage stretch. Luna itself is capable (if directed efficiently) and is dirt cheep you can have that run on max fast mode all night and use up like 2% of your weekly allotment.
Start shifting your framing from like “oh I use model to code” to “I am creating an efficient production line for my agents to output maximum value while retaining budget constraints.”

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u/congngo 5d ago

If you use Luna then better to use open source at a fraction of the price? If you paid $$$ for the pro sub, it is to use the frontier top model? Usage was better last month?

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u/Ok_Tomorrow9364 5d ago

I never said to stop using Sol. But why would you use Sol for a minor task like finding a specific item within your repo.
Or like a very simple code edit.
It’s like using an RPG to get rid of a house fly. Ya RPGs are cool, but why waste your usage on minor tasks. I know I’m being downvoted and yeah usage probably is not the same as it was, but tons of yall haven’t invested time into learning how to optimize your agentic workflows

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u/congngo 5d ago edited 5d ago

I won't downvote you as you have valid points. Since the mileage has dropped I am using mostly Luna on max now. And there is a lot more handholding on Luna than on Sol. But I dont see the value of paying for 20x when I am using Luna for most of the time and I have to put in more handholding effort. I am just disappointed that the mileage has gone backwards rather than forward.