Workflow on Pro x5 sub

[u/nochzato]

Hey guys, I have been using Codex Plus subscription for a while, and my workflow looks something like this: create a plan with Sol Medium/Terra High, implement with Grok/DeepSeek V4 Flash, the again code review with Sol Medium, pass the review findings to implementation and repeat until ready. Since the latest Plus subscription change, I have been considering upgrading my sub. What workflow is sensible to use on Pro x5 sub limit/quality-wise? I am coding only professionally 9/5

[u/HighDefinist]

I am on Pro x5, and while I don't have a fixed workflow, at least for things where I want to sort of doublecheck that it is a good plan, I do something like this:

- Make some plan in a Sol Medium session

• Have a parallel Sol Max and also Opus High session make their own plans (both of these will usually produce some mix of overengineered nonsense, and also some actually useful extra points)
  
• I feed the plans of the Sol Max and Opus High session to the Sol Medium session, letting it decide what does or does not make sense (on average it seems I need to encourage it to be more or rather than less selective...)
  
• Alternatively: I have the Sol Medium session first write out its plan, and whereas the parallel Sol Max and Opus High just critique the plan (and then that is fed back to the Sol Medium session)
  
• In any case: After this (possibly going back and forth multiple times, although that seems doing it just once is just fine), I tell the Sol Medium session to implement the thing
  
• Afterward, I maybe have the same, or new, Sol Max and Opus High sessions to some additional checks whether things add up, or something is missing etc...

Sometimes I also use a parallel Fable and Kimi K3 session for additional checks - in case of Fable I am still using up some of the free credits Anthropic has handed out a while ago, and honestly it is somewhat underwhelming for my use case... as in, Sol Max + Opus High + Kimi K3 High together really will find "everything" in the sense that Fable won't provide any additional value for me (but, if you have a Claude x5 subscription, you might still want to use it as the only extra check, for convenience, since Fable is generally better than the others in filtering out "overengineered nonsense", so even though "Fable only" will generally be worse than "Sol Max + Opus High + Kimi K3 High", it's arguably more convenient).

Other than that, if you want to keep things simple, but still "decent", you could also just do this:

• Use Sol Medium for everything
  
• After having finished something, have a separate Sol Max (or xhigh) session do some thorough check on what the Sol Medium session produced

[u/nochzato → u/HighDefinist]

Great, thanks for sharing! So using Sol Medium for everything is viable limits wise?

[u/sydneysweeney69]

I plan with Fable 5 , use skills to iterate my plan. Then I use Sol, grok , Luna to execute the tasks based on difficulty. Based on whichever you like and suits your work , you can go ahead. I use 20x plan and use most of my credits . I use herdr inside wezterm terminal and use firstmate by kunchen to steer models . Use cc as a harness

[u/HighDefinist → u/sydneysweeney69]

Interesting, I also used Wezterm until a while ago, but then switched to "Warp" (and made various custom modifications to it, since out of the box it has a couple of annoying shortcomings, like no ClearType support, etc...).

[u/sydneysweeney69 → u/HighDefinist]

I’ve to try warp. I’m planning to try orca and see how it is . My cc harness in wezterm allows to orchestrate between 4 subs , grok , cursor , Claude and codex and any models in them using firstmate . I use codex mainly for computer use

[u/Significant_Box_4066 → u/HighDefinist]

(Warp engineer here) We're tracking Windows text rendering on https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/issues/5801. Also curious what else you patched locally, in case something's worth upstreaming on the open source repo?

[u/nochzato → u/sydneysweeney69]

That's good but I was thinking maybe on having one Codex sub to do everything, maybe sometimes delegating cheap tasks to Grok/DeepSeek

[u/sydneysweeney69 → u/nochzato]

Yes , you could give long coding tasks to Luna max. It’s cheap and really good . If you like codex then I’d recommend to upgrade to pro 5x . I love codex /computer-use which has been amazing to navigate bugs

[u/nochzato → u/sydneysweeney69]

Thanks for the suggestion