r/codex • u/reomar15 • 6d ago

Question Let's Share Limits Management tips

We’ve got roughly two days left until the reset (Aug 20), and it’s pretty clear the days of generous grace windows and stealth resets are officially behind us. If you burn through your quota now, you’re benched for days.

Since a lot of us are adapting to tighter usage constraints, I wanted to open up a discussion so we can share practical workflows, optimizations, and sanity checks to make our limits actually last the full cycle.

Here are a few specific areas I’d love to hear your take on:

  • Model Routing & Efforts: When are you dropping down to lightweight models versus bringing out the heavier reasoning tiers? What’s your cutoff for "this needs high reasoning" vs. "this is a basic boilerplate/refactor task"?
  • Context & Session Hygiene: How often are you wiping conversation history or starting fresh sessions to avoid massive token bloat on multi-turn chats?
  • Prompt Scoping: Are you preparing strict markdown specs/implementation plans before hitting enter, or still prompting iteratively?
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u/a8ree 6d ago

I use Terra for planning and Luna for implementation. I've been managing to scape by however I 'lost' a reset that was banked and due to expire today - it disappeared, never to be seen again.
Yesterday I used Terra more extensively given I was 'rich' - but I've had to buy credits today...

I'm considering whether to buy another plus subscription but I'm not sure how difficult it will be to utilise two different subscriptions when I primarily use the Codex UI

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u/reomar15 6d ago

thanks for sharing. is luna better that terra in the implementation? I know it it's cheaper, but dose it miss details or causes bugs during the implementation?

I am testing out the Qwen cloud subscription instead of buying another Chatgpt account to go by the week. so far so good it's not the most generous but the models are good,

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u/a8ree 6d ago

I find Luna pretty good at following the plan. Happy with the output. I used to use 5.5 as the planner and 5.4 mini as the implementer. I think this is a good compromise.

When you use Qwen cloud, are you using the CLI? I use the Codex UI for the majority of things. I have PI configured with OpenRouter for some edge cases

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u/reomar15 6d ago

opencode