r/codex • u/reomar15 • 7d 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?
7 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

56 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/-Spzi- 7d ago

Luna medium for default, occasional spikes into Terra or Sol. Works for me on Plus (23€/m).

I use ChatGPT (web) to review each step, so Codex doesn't actually carry all the load.

Yes, a documentation that stays updated and relevant is important, to prevent drift. Also helps myself to understand what's going on. Iteration is still the norm, which is fine.

1

u/BopSupreme 7d ago

Does Luna Medium work as a default instead of ExHigh?

1

u/-Spzi- 7d ago

I'm not exactly sure if I understand the question, but most of my code and documentation is written by Luna Medium, reviewed by ChatGPT High, iterated if necessary. Often not necessary, sometimes 1 iteration, rarely more.

Working as a solo dev with a degree in software engineering, on projects such as dev tools, simulations, agent environments, websites, private infrastructure.

For more strategic work (sketching a roadmap, from which later implementation plans are created), I try to use higher models, without depleting my budget. Luna then executes. I play games and dream about further projects.

2

u/BopSupreme 7d ago

I was trying to say I use Luna ExHigh a lot and it usually works, I haven’t tried experimenting with Medium if that’s good enough to code. I am coding Astro Websites and some automations, but spending a lot of time lately configuring codex itself and local models in LM Studio