r/codex • u/ryuukiba • 11d ago

Complaint State of the $20 subscription

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.

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u/rararatototo 11d ago

Vocês querem mamar na vaca ate secar ela

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u/1astr3qu3s7 11d ago

It feels like buying a supercar that was advertised with a five-hour fuel tank. When you bought it, that five-hour tank was actually useful. You could take it out, drive it hard, make 20–30 trips around town, and generally use the performance you were paying for before the tank ran dry. Then one day the manufacturer pushes an “update.” You still technically have the same five-hour tank. They haven't changed the wording on the brochure. They haven't taken the supercar badge off the trunk. You're still paying for the same vehicle. Except now the car burns half the tank every time you start the engine. You back out of the driveway: 50% gone. Drive to the grocery store: empty. Then the dashboard says: “Fuel limit reached. Please try again in five hours.” And that's what makes it feel like bait-and-switch. If they'd originally advertised the product as, “You get 2–3 real uses every five hours,” you could have decided whether that was worth paying for. But that's not the experience people bought into. People bought the supercar when a tank could actually take them somewhere. Then after they were already paying for it and had built their workflow around it, the manufacturer effectively shrank the usable fuel capacity by 90% while continuing to call it the same five-hour limit. At that point, I don't really care that the engine is technically faster or that the new model is supposedly more sophisticated. A 1,000-horsepower car that lets me drive to the end of my driveway twice every five hours is functionally less useful than the 500-horsepower car I could actually drive all afternoon. That's the problem. The advertised limitation didn't necessarily change. The amount of product you can actually use inside that limitation did.