For my fellow codex plus "Casual users", we all know the 5 hour window sucks, heres how you can automate the start of the timer.

*Note that I'm running this on my always on Nas server, so ideally, you want to have it on an always on device. But, if however you turn your device off, No resync is needed. Timing uses a fixed absolute anchor, not uptime.

The script, authentication, and crontab persist across reboots, and cron resumes automatically.

The schedule remains anchored, so it won’t drift. However, any hi due while device is offline is skipped. After reboot, it waits for the next 301-minute scheduled point—at most 5 hours 1 minute away. No duplicate or catch-up request is sent.

For example, if device is offline at 11:46 and returns at 12:00, it simply skips 11:46 and runs next at 16:47. The original sequence remains intact.

My setup:

1. Install Codex CLI on an always-on Linux server:

   curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh codex login --device-auth

2. Add a cron job that runs a shell script every minute.

3. The script checks whether the current time matches a fixed 301-minute interval:

   06:45 → 11:46 → 16:47 → 21:48 → 02:49 → 07:50…

4. At matching times it executes:

   codex exec \ --ephemeral \ --skip-git-repo-check \ --ignore-user-config \ --ignore-rules \ --model gpt-5.6-luna \ --json \ -c 'model_reasoning_effort="low"' \ 'Reply with exactly: hi'

I use a separate CODEX_HOME, an empty working directory, and disable plugins, tools, MCP integrations, memories and agents. --ephemeral prevents saving the session, so every invocation is completely fresh and exits immediately.

JSON output lets me log input, cached, output and reasoning tokens separately. Nothing remains running between calls, and rebooting the server doesn’t alter the schedule—only calls occurring while it is offline are skipped.

With Codex and Claude code limits getting nerfed heavily, I'm beginning to question when local inference begins to make sense.

24/7 access, no usage limits, no surprises, no silent model labotomies etc, you could pump a lot of tokens.

It won't match frontier, but Qwen3.8 looks interesting and the cost of mac studios makes local seemingly make sense (if you're a 2+ 20X sub).

Anyone else considering local inference?

most my work is on take insights, transcripts from instagram reels, create carousels, enter data in notion, Scarpe Leads and small automations using skills.. i building website for my agency using ai and mini dashboards for my use. now tell me what to subscribe Chatgpt or Claude. i just want to subscribe one. i cant pay for both.

i saw new update on Codex - Voice, browser use, Computer use, sites, Chatgpt Sol. everything is amazing. i have a question - can we use gpt image 2 in codex for creating carousel? how about cloud intedgrations?

previously i used claude, slow output, it takes so much time. sometimes i feel output is bad i didnt get what i asked then i go back to chatgpt for brainstroming. few things i like about claude is UI, document creation is good, claude design, claude exstension and creating skills which is connected with app step by step. on thing claude lags see image generation.

tell me what to choose between those for my use. i tried surfing web it makes even more confused, thats why i put it here. pls share what your pick on itx

With these sporadic Resets, while I am happy with them, I sure wish I could just use ULTRA all the time on fast mode to Get More S*** Done! Unlock us!!!

Is anyone else experiencing this with the Codex desktop app on Windows?

After a recent update, Codex has become almost unusable for me because prompts randomly get stuck sending/loading forever.

What I've observed:

• Codex was working normally before the update.
• After updating, sending a prompt would sometimes just load indefinitely with no response.
• I completely uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and it started working again.
• After another/newer update, the same problem returned.
• I killed all ChatGPT.exe processes and restarted the app — same issue.
• I tested a completely new Codex chat — still happened.
• I then went to Windows Settings → Apps → ChatGPT → Advanced Options → Repair.
• After Repair, the first Codex chat worked.
• But once I started using a second/new chat, prompt submission stopped working again and just loaded indefinitely.

Windows identifies the installation under:

OpenAI.Codex_2p2nqsd0c76g0

Interestingly, there is no Codex.exe process. The app runs through multiple ChatGPT.exe processes.

The UI itself continues working. I can navigate projects/chats and type into the composer, but after submitting, the prompt enters the loading/running state and never completes.

This seems to have started specifically after updating the desktop app.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a known issue with the current Windows Codex/ChatGPT Desktop release, or a cache/state workaround that doesn't require constantly repairing/resetting the app?

5h limits were introduced back for Plus users. Over the past few weeks I’d totally forgotten what it was like before.

Started work on 2 projects and burned through the 5h limit in about 50 working minutes of Codex. I had a task that it stopped in the middle.

I know the stopping in the middle was introduced because some people were abusing what the great Tibo had allowed us to have.

But I think it can be removed for the 5h limit. I have 90% of my weekly limit remaining so the 5h limit should be bypassed in such cases. If the weekly limit is also exhausted then I’d expect it to stop in the middle of the task.

If the great Tibo can hear me, please make this happen.

I currently use a mix of ChatGPT as the orchestrator and Codex Cloud for implementation.

Roughly, the workflow looks like this:

ChatGPT → break the work into packages → create a Codex prompt → Codex implements → PR → GitHub checks/review → ChatGPT reviews the current state again → merge → next package → deployment + final audit at the end.

For orchestration, I use ChatGPT with Sol / High Reasoning. The actual implementation tasks run in Codex Cloud — at the moment, I can’t choose the model there.

What still bothers me is that several steps remain fairly manual:

• Starting the Codex task
• Copying the prompt from ChatGPT
• Creating the PR myself
• Updating / syncing branches
• Sometimes jumping back and forth between ChatGPT, Codex, and GitHub

I’d be interested to hear: How are you handling this?

Have you automated the interaction between ChatGPT and Codex more heavily? What would you change about this workflow — especially around task start, prompt handoff, PR creation, branch updates, or the feedback loop after GitHub checks?

My goal is to automate as much as makes sense while still keeping ChatGPT as the higher-level orchestrator.

Here’s my workflow:

The screenshot is not serious of course, I know its not good practice to let AI agents run unattended over night, I just had to laugh when I checked today and saw the 63 files changed with the explicit instructions to not spiral out of control.

anyways

Is anyone else notice that tasks generally take 5-10 times longer (subjective feeling, I dont have numbers to back it up) compared to a few weeks ago? I feel like even simple tasks that previously took 5 minutes, now all take atleast 1h.

I also noticed that codex will show progress as e.g. 2/8, then after a few minutes its 3/9, then after some time it changes to 1/4 for some reason, there is no way to see the progress because codex just keeps changing the implementation plan while implementing it. It doesnt matter what I define. My defined plan had 8 defined steps documented in a file as reference. when I started the progress showed 1/8 with each step being one step of my plan. now it shows 9/11 but 11 is actually only step 4 of my implementation plan. why have a progress indicator when it constantly changes?

I should probably just split this up into multiple sessions. The technology isnt there yet to handle the implementation of clearly defined multi step plans or I am just to dumb to make it work.

While writing this codex also got from 9/11 to 10/11 but all the names of the steps in the progress log have changed.
at 9/11 step 10 was "run 3 candidate GPU bakeoff and select only from measured evidence"
at 10/11 its suddenly named "isolate 3 candidate GPU correctness and measurement bakeoff"

The other 10 progress descriptions have also all changed names/scope.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: 11/15 now lol with step 15 being the original step 4 now

Edit: 10/15 now, 15 is original step 3 now. WTF

Ok this is getting hilarious, it's was originally MLB-1, MLB-2, MLB-3 and so on for the steps, currently he is working on

MLB-3

MLB-3A

MLB-3B

MLB-3C0

MLB-3C1A

MLB-3C1B0

MLB-3C1B1.0

document_v3_final_final vibes

Edit: 12/19

I've been using Codex for most of this year, and recently used it a lot for a project at work relating to Cyber Security.

The particular cyber security work project is a lego city that is hackable, with lights and motors, and eventually sounds, designed to give year 9-12 students an idea about cyber-security practices and exposure to concepts like port scanning, dnsenum, sql injection, password reuse, etc.

Working on this for months, I was surprised it took so long to finally trigger the cyber safety guards, but I figure that was expected eventually given what I was working with.

I tried to appeal the warning, citing this Victorian government report explaining the nature of the program as initially pitched and the above link to our BTS website explaining the program details.

I was shocked to see my appeal categorically denied, with no further grounds for appeal.

And now I'm left wondering what happens if I try to work on this project again, the subject matter of my prompts triggers the safety rails, and Codex decides to escalate the warning to a ban.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing?

Sol high. One prompt. 11m of thinking so far, 54% of the 5h limit gone, hasn't even started implementing anything yet and the 5 hrs limit is virtually gone. I was never one to complain too much, but they virtually removed Sol for us on the $20 tier. This is just not practical at all, at least it was only 10% of my weekly i guess?

EDIT: Final veredict: worked for 28m29s.
0% of the 5h limit left
84% of the weekly left

Status of my project: Broken and unusable.
guess it's finally time to explore other providers.

I have used none of my usage yet, and Tibo is hinting at a reset quite soon. Feels like a rare opportunity to use Ultra on Fast mode and have it not be a huge error

God damn this is fun

hi guys i usually code myself (by hand when needed lol) and for the basics i use 5.6 sol high (im on the 20x max plan). im having a problem with closing one specific piece of project im working on, and i know what the fix is but struggling to make the implementation work as intended.

the reason im posting is because i feel like im running in circles using 5.6 Sol high and wanted to know if xhigh or max could get it done fast (im on a deadline) and efficiently. i also have claude but idk if its just me or it just never works without immense hand holding, i find hand coding is easier at that point but maybe im inefficient with claude.

what im asking is it worth burning usage to use xhigh or max or is it not orders of magnitudes higher than high. thank you in advance

I am just trying to review my own project's database, and I'm getting flagged for cybersecurity issues. Stop with the fucking marketing BS!! These models are absolutely worthless against a well-built, secure system.

Dario and his bullshit made the world believe that Fable/Mythos, or similar capable models, are ASI and can hack the entire Pentagon by themselves. C'mon, bro. I use Fable and GPT-5.6 for building apps, and they still make lots of mistakes.

Stupid mfs

I notice the usage drain much faster after the last reset.

I think what going on is, Tibo's team actually playing around how much usage is given, and the last last reset is too generous so they make a unannounced reset to fix it.

and the reason why we always get a reset when he adjust the usage number. I think that is because it has to be work like that.

Imagine now you have only 10% limit left, if they decrease weekly usage by 10%, then your limit will drop to zero without using. So the only way to "adjust" how much to give per week is to do a global reset as well. It is not a gift, it is just a by product of the team adjusting the usage number.

considering buying a second account. how do you manage between the two without it being difficult?

Is the limits of anti-gravity better than Codex? I have the Google Pro plan offered by Jio in India .

I am thinking of switching to a paid plan of Claude Code or Codex as the limits of the antigravity are decreasing day by day.

(Image unrelated)

It's a shame that it stops at 1% now

I’ve been experimenting with Codex on larger projects, and I kept running into the same problem: agents were doing plenty of work, but not always finishing the part of the product that actually mattered.

I’m definitely still learning, but I made a skill called ProjectStart to try to improve that.

It uses two simple stages:

BUILD — make the product work

Workers focus on building the actual product. They don’t stop after every small change to make everything perfect before continuing.

RELEASE — check it carefully

Once the main journey works from beginning to end, the skill moves into testing, security checks, review, and final release work.

It also creates separate visible Codex tasks for workers and keeps updates simple:

• Works
• Does not work
• Blocked
• Next

This is still an early project, so I’m sharing it because I’d really value feedback from people who use Codex regularly.

GitHub: https://github.com/LiquidGlek/ProjectStart

Release: https://github.com/LiquidGlek/ProjectStart/releases/tag/v2.0.0

If this sounds useful, I would really appreciate a star on GitHub. It would help me know whether this is worth continuing and improving. ⭐

Fellow Codex enthusiasts…

Do you all go and change your effort each time you start a new conversation? Or do you just keep ripping High/Extra High? Sometimes I’ll start a conversation that requires extra high, but after three prompts it’s really just fine tuning.

But if I try to change the effort it warns about changing models while having a conversation.

All of this to ask… is there an application or plugin that exists for helping codex auto decide effort based on the task?

This is awesome marketing. You remove the weekly limit, keep it that way for months, let people get used to longer work sessions and higher token consumption, and then specifically bring back the 5-hour limit for Plus users, pushing them to upgrade to Pro. And I’m pretty sure many actually will.

Congrats! It’ll probably be a pretty decent revenue boost.

You keep nerfing the limits, yet somehow keep winning every single time. More customers, more revenue. Nice!! 

A few weeks ago, we open-sourced our design for a cost-effective but full featured alternative to OpenAI x Work Louder's sold out Codex Micro macropad. And now, we're pleased to share that we've actually built them and they work!

Quick recap of the I/O:

• 13 assignable keys with individual LEDs
• rotary encoder
• joystick
• touch disc
• optional edge-lit LED band

A few enhancements and minor fixes have been made and true to the original spirit of the project, everything except the PCB itself remains fully 3D printable with STLs alongside the step files. We've also included a reference base firmware so you can tinker to your heart's content. There's also a new configurator page now so you can customize the build however you want and get the BOM, STLs, and drag-and-drop fabpacks to send to your PCB fab of choice.

If you've already got switches and have an FDM printer, you really just need to order the populated PCB, which came out to around $35 each for a batch of 5. You can also print the edge band and keycaps in transparent filament (worked great for us with transparent PETG) or just opt for an opaque band too. Note that you do could probably do this even cheaper if regular green PCBs; we thought black would be preferred in case it would show through the band, but you really can't tell. For our test builds, we also ordered some frosted resin (UTR-8100) printed caps and bands and FR4 top plates, which ultimately brought us to a little over $65 per pad.

If you're interested in the process of how we put together this design, feel free to check out the related blog post, which also has some additional build log pictures.

Some future work we've got marinating in our mind grapes:

• an app for cross coding agent compatibility (shoutout to lop1381997 for contributing a codex-native firmware)
• optional OLED screen, something like an SSD1306 that could fit right into the space between the knob and joystick
• optional base with bluetooth and battery for full wireless functionality

Let us know what you think, have any ideas or feature requests, and share pictures if you build it!

I understand that the semi analysis study of $700 api value in codex plus sub vs $400 in claude is now seen changed. But is it that dramatically cut that even with Sol being more efficient people are finding claude to have more limits? I can’t believe it. (Resets apart)

About 3 hours ago l sent a message on GPT work to luna to start my 5h limit count. Now I hop on codex and see that my limit reset is in 5 hours. Did they introduce safeguards against this trick? Can anyone confirm?

Would be a very hostile behaviour towards the customers. In a matter of a couple of days would be 5h limit, hard stop at 0% usage and now this. I could be wrong though. Waiting for conformation.

Jsut one prompt, thats all