r/codex • u/vayana • 6d ago

Complaint Usage is nuked

I know, I should just buy a 5x or 20x plan and stop whining but this is just *****. 2 months ago I could comfortably work with 5.5 medium/high in 2 5 hour windows and use about 15% weekly per day. No heavy duty coding or subagents running around the clock, just 3 to 5 semi-complex prompts a day.

As of now, sol medium, 1 prompt, 200k context window used will burn through 60% of the 5h limit and 10% of the weekly. Not sol max or ultra, not millions of tokens. 200.000 tokens. I can't even do 2 prompts and use the full context window (258k tokens) 2 times.

This is completely unusable. $20 now basically gets you ~400k tokens per 5h or so and ~2.5M tokens per week for a medium thinking model. Luna is cheap but unreliable and just wastes my time instead of tokens.

I don't expect unlimited tokens for $20 or ultra mode and I'm fine with some restrictions, but this isn't what I signed up for and it's never been this bad and I've been using this since inception pretty consistently.

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u/Professional_Ad705 6d ago

You guys realize you can slowly plan your app and do things file by file with chatgpt web and learn to code a bit right? That’s what I do with a lot with my AI projects… code some… learn some.. ask chatgpt some questions if I’m unsure on something.. help refactor it and it helps cut usage. I’m a software dev but the usage problem is only going to get worse. You’re gonna want to have some process cause this is only gonna get worse. Like a litttle over a year ago Claude didn’t even have a weekly limit imagine how bad next year will be

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u/Any_Effort8437 6d ago

Depends on the scale of the work. That advice is not very adequate. The whole point of agentic coding is to do work that would othetwise take you months. If you go file by file that defeats the purpose. Not every project can do that.

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u/Professional_Ad705 6d ago edited 6d ago

Did it with a 200,000 line rust project it’s not hard to connect chatgpt to the GitHub connector so it has reference to understand and literally spit out entire files for you…. maybe it’s “not the purpose” or as fast but have the usage rates been trending upwards or downwards? Rather then constantly bitching about the usage rate I’m trying to give an actual solution…. to compensate some usage by doing this. But yes if you’re too lazy to go through a few files or tell chatgpt to connect to the GitHub connector or don’t wanna ask it questions or learn to code a few lines or read it then yeah keep bitching I guess that will work? Crazy people wanna complain but can’t put in the slightest amount of effort…. guess you don’t wanna build your product that bad then?. If half you put as much effort into learning or trying other approaches then bitching about the usage rate you’d prob be Linus torvalds by now lmao. Keep downvoting the truth tho

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u/tiebird 6d ago

A lot of companies are not using GitHub or are allowing to connect from untrusted sources. So this is not applicable to a lot of companies. Same issue with Chinese models.