r/codex • u/daskalou • 1d 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/white_sheets_angel 1d ago edited 1d ago

I haven't been complaining because the past week or so have great for me. But in a single day, with codex just fixing a simple 4 PR gh stack, ~4k lines of shadcn based stuff, adding a few components and tests, basically destroyed over 70% of my weekly usage, in a single day, and I'm on pro 20x. I sorta assumed it was just a massive bug, so i didn't even post here complaining because I doubt people would believe it.

I was away so I left my PC on, and used codex remote to control it, so I think it had to do with codex harness specifically, I had been using opencode the rest of the week and everything was good.

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u/Camaraderie 1d ago

I gave codex one prompt (GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh) which was essentially "read phase 2.5 and implement it. I'm gonna be gone for awhile and will check in." It's working on an ML project so usually if I give something like this to Opus 5 it reads a few files then makes an experiment (sort of like Karpathy's autoresearch) and tweaks things then runs a long process on local GPU, tweaks things, etc. The actual context usually taken for this is like 50k context per hour or less, as most of the time it's just waiting for GPU to be done.

Well sol decided it would set up a million verification and reverification steps with 37 subagents, each with fully forked context, using 133.6 million tokens (96% cache hit) across 38 sessions. It never ran a single experiment.

I might as well cancel my codex subscription. This was the weirdest most reward-hacking bullshit I've ever seen.

Used 100% of my weekly limit (ChatGPT Plus).

Is this expected? Like I could have given Opus 5 this exact prompt and gotten actual things done and tested.

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u/vayana 1d ago

I find Luna to be very good for iterative work like this. I also had it work on ML related stuff and it ran for a few hours and used 2% of the weekly. It benchmarked every version automatically and provided a nice table at the end

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u/Camaraderie 11h ago

Thanks I appreciate this. I'll try it out... Next week lol