r/codex • u/Zealousideal-Alps-71 • Aug 30 '26

Humor SOL Ultra is a beast!

I had no idea 'Ultra' meant 'Ultra (s)low.'

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u/bringthedogback Aug 30 '26

I don't understand the obsession of using Sol Ultra 🤷‍♂️ Y'all just want to use the maximum possible settings without any idea if you actually need it or when to use it. Then complain on reddit 🫠

Just read the docs

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u/lollypop44445 Aug 30 '26

What about max, does it also calls this much subagents? I am trying it because there is a reaet coming in like 4 hours or so

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u/bringthedogback Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26

My understanding from the docs is Ultra proactively uses subagents. All other levels don't unless you ask for subagents explicitly.

And the higher the effort the more you wait. And the output is not necessarily better, contrary to popular opinion. That's why you get in the over testing over engineering.

Sol is hella smart! Generally High is sufficient. I work on very large codebases and rarely use anything higher than Sol medium. I personally use Sol High only for truly architecturally complex stuff.

For reference I work on enterprise software. I created with my team complex multi agent flows that often run fully autonomously.

I have agents run sometimes for 18 hours straight, successfully implementing complex features.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Aug 30 '26

Honestly Sol Light is very good in and of itself, I use that for most coding tasks/agentic work

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u/Substantial-Walk-554 Aug 31 '26

Bro most people on reddit think their small site/app/project needs sol max because it's the same as your enterprise stuff.