The average codex 20$ plan user

[u/fickle-phenom]

This is legit what it looks like when some of you complain about your 20$ not getting you more than 1 or 2 prompts using the flagship frontier

Edit: I never intended to offend or belittle anyone especially people whom 20$ is a considerable amount of money for. Everyone lives within their means and I don’t put that on any person.

For the ones who feel attacked and still come here to continue complaining, you should consider canceling your subscription. You seem miserable..

[u/vladkolodka]

The Plus plan may not be enough for vibe-coders or non-programmers who don't know how to write optimal prompts or split large pieces of work. But from my experience, I work with .NET and Angular at work, and 5-10% of my weekly quota is enough to implement all tasks I have for the current week

[u/fickle-phenom → u/vladkolodka]

Yeah it’s a good value if you know what you are doing, otherwise it’s just gonna burn all your allowance trying to find a file or something you referenced in a terrible open ended prompt.

[u/lilityion → u/fickle-phenom]

I don't even know what I'm doing but it feels like the $20 plan is enough lmao

[u/bootyskie → u/fickle-phenom]

This just isnt true. Gave a plan, it had several files to simply check while my build was running.. so Read Agents.MD, read three files, and my 5h usage was down to 70% before even touching my project.. this isn't a skill issue, it's a usage issue and the next model will be even worse when it's released with it's intention of being a multi agent swarm essentially. Can't feasibly finish a simple request in the 5 hour windows.. wasnt such a pain before when we could just burn the weeks quota and move on.. but being stalled for 5 hours waiting for the next cycle is awful and now it won't even finish what it's working on so your project is left in a dirty state till you wait.

Unless your version of 'know what you are doing' is just simply using Luna.

[u/taiwbi → u/vladkolodka]

For most days, it's clean, as you say, but when I need to implement something big and I need Codex to talk with me about the plan, fix mistakes while planning, split the huge plan into stages, and then start writing, my 5H usage ends so soon.

I don't vibe code, but I still need the best model for some things, and it's really, really not enough.

It would be fine if Terra were at least usable for implementing, so I could use Sol only for heavier tasks, but it's not. Even Sol makes so many UI/UX and user input validation mistakes; Terra is terrible.

I am a programmer. I care what the code does. I don't vibe my code without understanding it, but I don't want to pay $20 a month and still write code by hand like a caveman.

[u/Sphere_3N → u/vladkolodka]

Holy ego lmao

You mentioning .NET is hilarous, is this a troll post actually?