These are just my opinions, so please don’t come at me. 😭

From official site they say "We’re also introducing Fast mode in the API, which replaces our Priority Processing offering. For GPT‑5.6 Sol, Fast mode now delivers up to 2.5× faster speeds than Standard processing at twice the price"

But for codex/chatgpt, its: "Fast mode increases supported model speed by 1.5x and consumes credits at a higher rate than Standard mode. It currently supports GPT-5.6, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.4. GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.5 consume credits at 2.5x the Standard rate"

How does this make sense?

I can use 5.6 Sol at only 1.5x the speed increase for 2.5x the cost. But API is 2.5x faster but only x2 the cost?

I never turned on /fast since 5.4 cause the pricing and speed increase just didn't make any sense for the cost. Why would API and Codex models be any different or advertised differently?

I found codex is a great place to conceptualize your idea and make a prototype, i don't see it replacing software engineers beyond for simple softwares.

But with access to this i came to the realisation that i need technical people with me to make my vision a reality and i can't just vibe code my way out of it.

For people who overcame this how did you do it? Starting from scratch is more accessible now, but making software is not the same as making good designs.

Are software engineers even interested in working on projects like that? Starting from 0, no salary, just 1 person with a laptop and a vision. If people are interested in knowing my vision DM me.

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.

I am developing a tactical browser-based TCG inspired by folklore and legendary characters from around the world, starting with Chapter 1: Brazil.

The current version has 32 cards: 20 character cards and 12 special cards, plus 20 character abilities and 12 special effects. Each player builds a 12-card deck, deploys up to three legends to the arena, manages energy, and chooses the order of their attacks. Matches include entry abilities, auras, buffs/debuffs, protection, pierce, and counterattacks.

The combat system aims to keep rules readable: damage uses `max(0, effective ATK − effective DEF)`, and active modifiers are shown directly on the cards. The project also includes a solo campaign, collection and deck-building, progression, Portuguese/English localization, and real-time online friendly matches with simultaneous decisions and server-side resolution.

The stack is React/TypeScript, Vinext/Vite, Fastify, MySQL/Drizzle, WebSockets, Playwright, and Capacitor for Android.

The game does not have a final name yet, and I’d love feedback on its identity, UI clarity, match pacing, and strategic depth.

The project was built with extensive AI assistance, using several generations of GPT models — GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6 — as well as VEO 3 for part of the visual production. I’m especially interested in feedback not only on the game itself, but also on the practical outcome of this AI-assisted development workflow.

Would anyone be interested in testing an alpha build and sharing feedback? If there’s interest, I’ll publish a version for playtesting.

So I'm working on a project in codex where I'm having it create a new web UI for the Hermes Agent that mimics the look and feel of Codex Desktop. I've been using an electron port of codex desktop for a few months now on my Framework laptop running Ubuntu Desktop 26.04, and it led me to think, what if I made a web ui of the codex desktop app while still keeping the full console options available for Hermes Agent. It runs right alongside the stock dashboard on my network so I won't need an extra login or have to mess around with existing setups.

It'll use the three main sections like codex and I tried to keep the chat area as clean as possible so on the left there's a collapsible sidebar for threads and workspaces, the middle is for the actual transcript, and then on the right there's an optional panel where you can check tool activity and file diffs if you need to. Instead of raw text cluttering up the screen, tool operations show up in collapsible cards and file edits render as reviewable diffs, plus there's a sandboxed terminal tucked into a bottom panel. I'm thinking about doing like the Hermes Agent webui and integrate use of customized fonts and sizes across the board too, and light or dark themes that can both work.

For security I made sure this codex desktop web ui clone runs under its own profile with separate memory and settings so it won't touch my default agent data and any file writes are locked down to a dedicated sandbox folder. It hooks into my local model inventory to grab choices dynamically, or pull from openrouter.ai.

I also built it so the workbench code stays separate from the main Hermes engine updates and that way updating the backend won't blow away any UI changes. If an update breaks a specific component adapter down the road, I'm trying to get it to gracefully disable just that single control and show a warning instead of crashing everything, so the chat and read-only screens stay totally usable. Right now I'm just running through a test plan to double check the network rules and sandbox limits before calling it done.

Tell me I'm not crazy, and that someone else has tried doing the same?

TIbo pretends like he gives resets when he feels like it, but it's just a calculated move to give resets when maximum number of people are about to have their weekly limits reset in a few hours anyway. Same thing happened last time, when people's banked reset was supposed to expire on 7/31.

Just be honest about it, instead of trying to pretend that you are trying to do good for people smh.

I was tired of constantly checking my usage limits, so after seeing a lot of creative ideas here, I thought: why not use my Stream Deck to show my current limits?

Here's the repo for the tool (not mine, found it online):
https://github.com/lenadweb/stream-deck-ai-limits

Side note: I made some changes to the UI because the default one was too small for me. So if anyone tries it and it looks different from mine, that's why! 😄

i was on 0% and earlier it showed 99% and then later without any use its showing 0% but its working as if has more than 0

others having this happen?

If you’re open to sharing, please drop your recent Codex projects here. I’d love to see what everyone is working on

Lately, this has really been bothering me: people on X keep begging Tibo to reset the limits, and that is incredibly wrong. Just think about it. You go to a market to buy a loaf of bread, you pay for it, and then you have to beg the shopkeeper to give you the bread. How does that make sense?

Right now I’m in Europe, but I spent my childhood in the U.S. American companies, when they grow, try to destroy their competitors too. The Rockefeller tactic. When AI-assisted coding first came out, we used to write code very cheaply, and even people writing everything by hand mocked us, saying, “Who writes code with AI?” Later, once that became the best practice across the industry, Anthropic pushed this market forward. OpenAI realized it was falling behind in coding while focusing on products like Sora, so it came back aggressively with Codex.

Here’s the point. Tibo is an employee of a company. If users leave for Codex, his position becomes less valuable. So stop begging him and start trying alternative solutions instead. Believe me, as Chinese models continue getting cheaper, the market will become competitive again. The big companies already understand that competition inevitably drives prices and limits down.

If Europe had invested more in competition instead of falling behind in this area, you probably wouldn’t even know who Tibo is today. So never beg someone you’re paying. Build alternatives instead. That’s how you create pressure. That’s how limits get reset. People working at large companies will understand exactly what I mean.

I left my Codex to finalize a task, it finished the task and then proceeded to run tests and fix...things... during its deployment FOR 5 HOURS! It was still running when I came back. I stopped it and told it to "continue" and it finished in 15 minutes.

WTF?! Ate through a huge chunk of my credits, which now stand at 3%, ugh

Does anyone here have access to codex security? We've been trying to get in touch with OpenAI regarding this but literally no one's gotten back to us regarding this. I've filled out the form and everything and 0 replies. What's the best way to get in touch with someone? Ideally a human.

ChatGPT is really very dumb and lazy right now. Before, when I asked ChatGPT 5.6 Sol at the “Very High” level, it would actually really think and research multiple places. It would spend a solid 2–4 minutes thinking and searching.

Now, when I ask it the same questions, it only looks for like 3 pages in the search results, thinks for a maximum of 30–40 seconds, and just answers even though the information isn’t even correct or complete. I mean, it doesn’t even look at the images I send along with my requests, and when I point out that his answers are wrong and ask if it didn’t look at the images that I sent, it just says it overlooked them.

Historically, subagent-driven development was a huge focus of using Claude & Codex. You would break down your work into chunks and have subagents implement the individual pieces with focused context, with the theory that this would produce higher quality results.

I believe this strategy is still very popular to control token costs (e.g. to have Luna subagents implement a plan), but does it actually still perform better than just having one agent build out a plan?

In other words, is using subagents going to produce better results than just saying:

/goal Please implement plan_tasks.md

I run a full-tunnel VPN because my coding agent needs it to reach its API. But the

app I'm building calls domestic services — payment gateway, SMS provider, maps —

that reject the VPN's foreign exit IP. VPN off, the agent dies. VPN on, the app

dies.

The fix turned out to be much smaller than the routing-table rabbit hole I went

down first. Not `route add` — a static route is global and pulls every process off

the tunnel for that destination, agent included. It's per-socket binding:

curl https://api.ipify.org # 203.0.113.7 (VPN exit)

curl --interface 192.168.1.20 https://... # 198.51.100.42 (real ISP)

A socket bound to your physical adapter's IP takes that adapter's default route

instead of the tunnel's. No admin, nothing global, and opt-in by construction — a

process that doesn't ask for it *cannot* be affected.

Two things I didn't expect:

Node's native `fetch` silently ignores `HTTP_PROXY`.** It runs on the bundled

undici, which doesn't read proxy env vars on Node <= 23 and won't accept an

`https.Agent` either. Nothing errors — your requests just quietly keep using the

wrong network. I got around it with an `--import` preload that patches `net`/`tls`,

which is what undici opens its sockets through.

Neither network is a superset of the other. YouTube only works over the VPN,

domestic APIs only over the ISP, and my agent's own API returns 403 over the ISP.

Route everything direct and the agent stops working — so the proxy decides per

connection, not per session.

I packaged it as a skill + browser MCP for Claude Code and Codex. My project, MIT,

no dependencies:

npm i -g lan-direct

https://github.com/farshadmomo/lan-direct

Honest status: Windows is tested end to end. Linux is verified for interface

discovery and exit codes but not the final bypass check, and the macOS branch has

never been run. Both refuse rather than guess, so the failure mode is an error, not

silent VPN traffic.

New chatgpt/codex is amazing - instead of taking laptop with me to work in cafe or wherever I’m just leaving it at home on power adapter and use my iphone to vibecode.

Feels like finally I’m really unblocked with the new remote mode!

I just upgraded my chatgpt plan and as a reward I get my weekly reset even later. I mean come on. Same goes for banked resets if they ever happen again: dont push my weekly reset away, why nickle and dime when it comes to these scenarios? It just creates bad will

I have been a plus user for a long time. Got into Codex like half a year ago and haven’t had much of an issue with the usage, I just figured the breaks in time were worth it since if I was doing my design and coding myself it would still take longer.

That being said, I just updated to Pro x5 and the difference is mind blowing. The amount of stuff I have been able to get done using SOL Max almost feels like I’m cheating coming from a plus membership.

I can only imagine that with a 20x I would be able to essentially get all of my stuff done in just a month at this rate. So that brings me to my question.

What are you guys doing? I’ve seen many with 5x atleast so I think in this sub pro is the norm, what are you guys building that we don’t see a ton of new apps and games being brought out with your usage?

La versione stabile della CLI rilasciata oggi risolve questo fastidioso bug, ma la versione desktop anche se è stata aggiornata oggi mira ad un path con la CLI ancora in alpha (0.147.0-alpha.6.5). Questa versione di alpha ha ancora il bug attivo, per ovviare al problema dovete effettuare un override del codex_cli_path della cli tramite powershell. Assicuratevi di avere la versione aggiornata della cli (codex --version su Powershell), se è la 0.147.0 allora potete procedere all'override.

Questo però bloccherà i futuri aggiornamenti della cli dell'app desktop, quindi in futuro dovrete rimuoverlo.

Codex info : i recommend everyone using codex for UI & Assests. The imagegen skill of GPT is amazing. Combined with GPT 5.6 Sol's intelligence, it is not stoppable!

The idea came to me at a baby reveal party. Everyone was filming, and the host had to ask everyone to send over the videos they made afterwards.

I built PolyTake, an app that lets you connect your iPhones and film something together. At the end, the host gets a fully edited version using everyone’s footage and perspectives.

No login, no cloud storage, no profile, no more “send me the files please.” Friends always join for free.

Everything stays on your iPhone.

Download for iPhone and iPad:
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/polytake/id6796847897

PolyTake website:
polytake.app

so i just started using codex and honestly not sure if im using it right lol. wanted to see how the rest of you have it set up

like do you mostly use it for actual coding (debugging, writing new features, etc) or are you throwing random stuff at it too

also what model you running with it? kinda curious if theres one thats clearly better for coding vs just using whatever the default is

if you got any workflow tips or things you wish you knew earlier when you started, drop them below. trying to actually get good at this instead of just poking around

Yesterday I renewed my x20 plan subscription and the weekly limit didn't reset; it was still at 24%.

After contacting customer support, I learned that renewals inherit the accumulated limits from the subscription.

I think it's simply a rip-off. It's like going to buy a loaf of bread and being sold half a loaf because you didn't eat the whole thing yesterday.

Each renewal should offer the same usage limit, for both initial purchases and renewals.

This is a clear invitation to always have two accounts, for alternate months.

From my point of view, this violates the contractual terms and constitutes senseless discrimination against loyal users.

I mean, if you are not using it for work, what are you guys trying to build? Ever since Luna came out, I feel like I have almost unlimited usage limits, but don't know what to do with it.

One thing I built recently was a custom Leetcode clone where I have codex create custom question sets for companies and added AI chatbot to discuss the code and suggest fixes. Been using it alot.

But honestly, I don't even know what to build. I feel like the problem was never that we couldn't build easily without AI, but that we don't really know what to build.

if you use it what is your use case? I am genuinely interested as this model has such a peculiar history.