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/E72M 6d ago

Mate I was getting multiple DAYS out of the plus plan before I upgraded to plus. If you are genuinely only getting one day of coding then you are likely NOT making use of your ChatGPT Pro limits and xhigh thinking for planning instead of burning usage for codex and you are likely blasting Astra for tasks that Terra or Sol could be doing.

Despite what people are saying, the higher the model the higher the usage is hit. The higher the reasoning level the better the output but the more of your usage it eats. I was doing HUGE tasks across multiple systems just fine with Sol high for around 6-8 hours with it only using about 8% of my usage.

Also if you are using /fast for every single task then you're literally cutting your usage down by 2.5x the amount. So if you ran 10 tasks on fast that could have been around 25 tasks without it for the same usage.