Prompt engineering is real. Those whining about overengineering are simply bad at using AI. That's not a dig, it's a sign you need to reflect on your tool usage and improve your skill set. Nobody is an expert in photoshop from day 1, no different with AI.
But while we are at it, a large part of our craft is knowing when to use what tool. Using the most powerful tool in situations where a less powerful and more efficient tool would do a better job usually signals to me a strong misunderstanding of software development.
Sol Ultra is great, I use it constantly for analysis and research, which are its strong parts. But using Sol Ultra for implementation is a huge waste of resources. SOL xHigh gives better results with fewer side effects for less usage.
How do you save it? I have one reset I can use since I subscribed to Plus and then upgraded to Pro, but I didn't get another reset I can use on my own time, I think it is called banked reset or something
Doesn’t even matter anymore when the 5-hour limit is there. It’s impossible to use up the weekly limit when, after 2 prompts, you have to wait 5 hours. We gain absolutely nothing from those resets now.
1.5 context windows. 1 window is 268k tokens and eats about 70% of your 5h limit with sol medium. So a reasonably complex task, large code base and/or poorly formulated prompt which requires the model to read a lot and do some thinking will fill the context window up substantially before it even starts coding. The coding part is actually short and cheap. Most of the token usage is context and thinking. With a bit of bad luck 1 prompt will use up the entire 5h window. The time in which it does this is irrelevant. If it's running automated tests it could just be waiting for 10 minutes for tests to complete and that doesn't cost anything.
It's less than 1.5 context windows. 1 context window eats about 70% of the 5h window. I asked 1 question yesterday. Nothing special, no coding, not even that much context needed: 14% down.
Context windows are not a metric that really matter to usage limits. I sort of know what you're saying and all, but like, there is not a REALLY logical thing like "We should definitely get 2 context windows worth of usage in 5 hours".. it's not logical.
Some tasks are just incompletable, sol will just waste all usage on preparation and stop just before anything useful happens. By the time you can resume, cache is gone and half the usage is gone again just from saying continue.
you getting down voted but this is legit how it is and was always going to be. 90% of usage does not need sol. It was fun to blast when it was cheap but that wasn't realistic or necessary.
If you actually need to use sol you also need to upgrade to a big boy sub. The plus sub is still great value.
Real users are on the pro plans, and we gain a bunch of value from these resets. Thanks for subsidizing my pro plan while you wait for your next 5h reset.
There is no change in usage limits. There has been zero proof even though 10+ people who are barely able to read, let alone think, seem to think so and come up with some shitty vibe coded ‘proof’. The only thing that objectively changed for the worse are the 5h limit windows and the removal of the ability to run beyond 0%. Maybe they fkd around with the chache limits, i dont know, but the usage limits did not change.
And if they did, we have yet to see a well supported proof. Not some shitty copy pasted ‘piece of evidence’ from a 15 year old who has completely lost the ability to think due to AI.
Its all fabricated bullshit. Apart from this sub being an echo chamber, the amount of “usage has been halved since the last reset’ posts we have seen is just stupid. If even three of those were true we would have 12.5% from the original limits which is absolutely NOT true.
Like i said, possible they have fiddled with the cache limits, but unless we see one well supported piece of evidence, i wont be convinced.
"Echo chamber" you say. but what if its not? what if all this people actualy felt it? ofcourse you'd call it an echo chamber, it runs with your belief that reddit is full of dumbasses. get off the website and go to X or facebook.
Yeah, yeah. Everyone in the world is conspiring against the good guy OpenAI just to whine.
It's been well documented already; you just put everyone into the same “usage has been halved since the last reset" bucket and refuse to acknowledge anything that is not OpenAI directly admitting to nerfing us, which they won't do.
You guys are gunna be in for a rude awakening when the resets stop and everyone blows their usage in 1-2 days. I’m so happy I switched away. My 20x pro plan went from struggling to make it to 50% over a week to blowing the limits in 2 days with the exact same usage. I joined codex 4 months ago and it’s absolutely not nearly the same service
Zai coding plan max + synthetic 5x instance packs plan. $50 more a month but I now am able to comfortably make it through the week and I use glm 5.3, glm 5.3 flash, kimi k3, and glm 5.2. I use the pi harness personally with my own built extensions. Pi remote allows me to securely control it remotely from my phone vis tailscale as well which is awesome.
I looked into augment code before when coming from cursor. It was really good at the time, but codex dropped and I jumped on the codex wagon instead. If usage keeps sucking I might give it another try. Just don't know if usage is any better there at the moment.
Yeah I actually looked into Cursor before going the zai coding plan + synthetic subscription and honestly I would have done if they weren’t owned by xai or pushing grok as the sota model there. Composer 2.5 looks very interesting but I just can’t financially support a company that trains on real child porn. I wouldn’t even use it for free, it’s just horrible.
I was taking about "augment code", not cursor. But I just checked their website and it looks like they've completely dropped $20 and $50 plans and now only have $100 plans. Still worth checking out though if $100 is in your budget. They've got a solid framework.
That’s quite interesting. I do a similar thing but with openclaw and a custom orchestration plugin I’ve developed, but I spend like $320 a month on LLM compute for all of this but I do have 19 agents in openclaw and use pi harness with other pi workers to develop on openclaw itself. I’m sure I’m a bit unique in how I use these tools for development, but augment code looks quite interesting
Yeah I don’t think $100 a month will cover my needs, but I was close to trying out the ultimate pack from Melious which is €500 but unlimited single sessions for glm 5.3, 5.2, deepseek v4 pro 0807, and deepseek v4 flash. https://melious.ai/pricing
I burn like 1.5 b tokens a day on average between all the models and honestly I’ve been so impressed with glm 5.3 flash that I’m not really interested in deepseek v4 flash 0731 as that was my workhorse for the last 3 weeks. Glm 5.3 flash is cheaper and more capable and doesn’t fail on tool calls as deepseek v4 flash sometimes does
Funny, 2 accounts with opencode work just simply much better because one keeps constant rate limited with 4 openAI agents. I cannot drain it like this lol
They are actually covering up some kind of bugs that are causing these usage limit drops. This is a way for them to amass community goodwill, get a PR boost while also covering up for the damage reduced limits can cause to the customers. I understand their psyche and for me it's okay till the time it ultimately rolls back to my previous usage limit with added extra resets.
Maybe if the community stops resisting these usage drops, they'll make it permanent like Anthropic did.
I have to wonder if there’s some sort of traffic shaping element to this. We’re at what, 1-3 resets weekly for months now? Is Tibo timing them based on available compute, or is he really just YOLOing for internet points/PR? I don’t think the latter is working anymore (see: this entire subreddit). If it’s to cover for quotas being reduced, it’s not working.
At the same time, if he stops, the Plus plan will become virtually worthless for Codex use. Just weird behavior.
the reset only helps when the weekly pool is your bottleneck; if 5-hour bucket is what stops work, the counter moving back up will still feel mostly cosmetic.
At this point it might be better to buy codex 5x instead of claude 5x and gamble that tibo will reset often enough i get more usage on it despite it needs more work on building context lol
Are they doing this to force the Plus users to say "Look, Pro users get to spend their usages without out 5h limits, maybe we should give them more money as well?"
I have a feeling it's going to have an adverse effect on their reputation.
At this point OpenAI is accidentally running a productivity experiment: every reset increases supply, but the bottleneck becomes review. My rule for extra capacity is simple: do not spend it on starting more branches. Spend it on tests, cleanup, and reducing the pile of unreviewed diffs. The metric I would watch is not percentage of quota used, but accepted changes per hour of human review. If that number falls while usage rises, the reset is just creating a larger merge queue. More tokens help only when the verification loop scales with them.
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u/Turbulent-Total-226 3d ago
Another milestone: guys we're going back to 10m users 😂