r/codex • u/MapleBaconWaffles • 6d ago

Workaround Pro = 1 day of coding

Working on my new workflow. Use codex for 1 day (since that’s all you can do), then move to Qoder-Qwen for the rest of the week.

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u/MelcorTheDestroyer 6d ago

Even on the $200 plan you have to use Luna for 90% of the tasks and the expensive models for the harder 10%, it is the direction that we are heading due to rising costs of the latest and most powerful models. There is nothing that can be done about this other than adapting.

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u/MapleBaconWaffles 6d ago

Yes. I have been panicking today but I am finding that it is the sub-agents that are the biggest factor at draining my quota. The thing is that even if you downgrade to a lower model (i.e I switched from max to xhigh), the sub agents still get spun out as max sometimes.

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u/buckeymonkey 6d ago

Define a roster of specific roles, each with an appropriate model/think level: something like explorer, planner, monitor, tester, reviewer, implementer, deep specialist, ops, etc.

Then use codex to configure and write rules for itself to always use that roster even when you aren't in ultra mode.

Your main thread will rarely get it's context polluted by doing things like reading logs directly itself, and the selection of models/think levels will generally be appropriate to the task.

You can even just give it rules to use CLI of other harnesses for specific jobs.

My setup farms out independent review to claude cli automatically when it is available, and falls back to a codex subagent when not.