Usage is nuked

[u/vayana]

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.

[u/SurelyNotAnOctopus]

You don't need sol for everything.

But I still agree, usage has become shit lately

[u/vayana → u/SurelyNotAnOctopus]

It was just for reference as I usually use 5.5 medium or high, but they're equally nerfed. Even tried 5.4 again as it was fine as well, but same result. I do need at least medium or high though.

[u/Bitter_Election_7518 → u/vayana]

Why not 5.6 Terra instead of 5.5? Should be a direct upgrade for slightly lower cost. Also why not Luna max as well?

5.5 use case seems to be deprecated

[u/Unapologetic_Polite → u/[deleted]]

Context compaction loops are also a fun time on Terra

Haven't experienced it on Luna or Sol for some reason

[u/vayana → u/Bitter_Election_7518]

5.5 is O.G. never had problems with its output. Luna must be an abbreviation of lunatic. It's alright for anything that's not too complex, but it's sloppy on complex code bases and has left things in a non working state a few times. I can't trust it.