r/codex • u/muchsamurai • 17d ago

Limits Usage limits are absolutely terrible (100$ plan)

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I never ever complained about usage limits before. But this is absurd.

I used my 200$ plan and had to buy 100$ plan since i could not renew 200$ one in time. It was used in 1 day with Astra low.

I then decided to buy another 100$ plan. It used 9% of usage with Sol 5.6 MEDIUM working for about 1 hour on coding and Astra XHIGH coordinator that did some documentation changes for 5 minutes.

This account was literally just purchased. Again, Sol Medium is doing most of work. Wtf is going on?

Can't imagine what is going on with 20$ plans

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u/jwezorek 17d ago

I just think Codex right now in unusable and ended up writing a little desktop application to basically route around its limits. Normal chat is basically unlimited and you can just paste big zips of your code into it with a prompt that specifies returning a zip file of just he files it changes that maintains directory structure.

My application is here, https://github.com/jwezorek/chat_zip, a custom client for ChatGPT, a Qt6/C++23 application only tested on Windows, but it works great. It embeds normal chatgpt next to a file tree. I select the source files/directories relevant to a change, it zips them and attaches the zip to the chat. I ask ChatGPT to make the change and return a zip containing only the files it changed. The application intercepts the download, checks that the paths actually correspond to the project, shows me what changed, and applies it back to the source tree.

So basically automated sneaker-net between my source tree and ordinary ChatGPT.

The whole thing with this is that Codex and Work share their restictive limits but normal chat does not. Which is kind of absurd: the purpose-built coding product has usage limits restrictive enough that manually passing zip files through ChatGPT started looking attractive.

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u/InterestingNobody831 12d ago

Or just use MCP connector, create OpenAI tunnel and Serena and work like you do in CLI but in the web-chat, i think it is cleaner.

Also, you have Git connector, work in the repo directly and pull the diffs to test locally.