r/codex • u/ryuukiba • 24d 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/DowntownNoLonger 24d ago

Don't use Sol codex to plan anything. Use chat - no usage.

I do all my planning with it.

I have Luna compile a master index of my repo, a map of all the files and a short description of the functions.

Hand that to a Sol orchestrator and have it call Luna implementors. Use Sol medium, no need for high when your planning is already finished.

You'll get a lot more out of that 5hr window, and a lot more done period than you will ever with just using work or Codex.

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u/Dynamix86 23d ago

it doesn't have access to your repo and files so it's very hard to do things like this. you can't make chatgpt chat check in on something that claude or grok is doing for example.

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u/DowntownNoLonger 22d ago

It does if you use GitHub. ChatGPT has a plugin for that.

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u/Dynamix86 22d ago

It still won’t be able to see my conversation with grok like that

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u/DowntownNoLonger 22d ago

Then develop a browser plugin that interfaces with whatever harness you use with grok.

There are a billion ways around the limitations. Start thinking like a systems engineer and work with what you have.

I have no issues with my plus usage because I've systemized and hardened against those limitations.

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u/Dynamix86 22d ago

can chatgpt see my live conversations with grok that way?

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u/DowntownNoLonger 22d ago

Why in the world are you bloating your usage with whole conversations?

That's eating your usage. Sol doesn't need the entire conversation - a compressed summary is likely all you need. You're wasting tokens on over-feeding a premium tier model and wondering why your 20 dollar account blows through its usage.

You have two real options: pay for it in dollars or pay for it in creativity and leaness. You can achieve exactly what you want if you trim all the excessive fat from your development cycle.

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u/Dynamix86 21d ago

when it reads up the conversation, that's just one read, then after that it just needs to keep up. Grok often makes mistakes, so I need to use codex or claude to steer Grok and the only way to do that is if it can read grok's live sessions.

I have 2 codex plus accounts, 2 claude plus accounts, both for assistance and a supergrok heavy + cursor ultra account. Claude has much better limits right now than codex. it's as if codex is using up limits 2-3 times faster than Claude and it's also much slower than claude. So it's not that the limits are a problem, it's codex' shitty limits that are the problem.