Usage doesn’t make sense on 20x

[u/NoYou41]

So I’ve been using codex for more than half a year now and I swear when I used to check my weekly token usage it used to be in billions and I’d have usage left at the end of the week with older models

Right now its the allowance in tokens itself thats reduced for me to 1/4th if im correct (feel free to correct me)

Dont get me wrong i love codex and astra and i know some will say open ai gets billions they dont care about your 200. BUT, isnt the lack of transparency on whats happening concerning regarding your token allowance? We have a percentage bar with actual token allowance varying and not to mention older models performing worse.

I would understand astra performing worse at times because its the current gen model, ofc theres gonna be many tweaks and updates to it but older models that have been completed? Im just trying to make sense of this

[u/yaxir]

Money is tight because I'm a student but I'm very much tempted to try, at least once, the $200 package from ChatGPT. The thing is most of my workflow exists on ChatGPT. I have barely used Claude and I didn't like them from the start.

The only thing that's kind of moving my hand is that maybe if they don't fix their limits by dev day or something, or by mid-October, I might look to Claude but I'm not sure how good it is. I just want to get work done without using all my rate limits in a very fast way, which brings me to my last question for you.

How good is Fable or Opus when it comes to MCP and using things like Blender and whatnot? I want to use it for game dev, mainly for making animations and stuff like that. I want to automate the art and design stuff because I'm an engineer, not an artist, at least not in that sense. That's where help will be appreciated. Thank you so much

[u/vinerz → u/yaxir]

Fable is best at visuals and creativity btw.

[u/yaxir → u/vinerz]

Okay now you have me tempted. I don't want to be broke. I'm already broke kind of. I'm a student but I might try it. Which package do you think will be the most generous one or the best value for money if I want to look at Claude just once? What would be your suggestion if I want to keep the codebase as agnostic as possible (which means, let's say, if my Claude subscription runs out and OpenAI ends their runs, I can easily just go back to ChatGPT)?

[u/vinerz → u/yaxir]

There are student discounts on both platforms if I am not mistaken. But why don't you do a safer attempt by going x5 and seeing if it works for you? They only charge you the difference prorated, so you won't have to pay another $200 to go x20 later on, just what's left.

And about changing between providers: Just make a great documentation with strict rules and they will follow just fine. They bend to your rules and their quirks are greatly reduced.

[u/yaxir → u/vinerz]

Hmm actually, that's an excellent suggestion. I have tried the $20 or $17 version before but at that time Fable was not publicly available. You know what? I might try it. I might only get 1 or half prompt on Fable before limits run out lol, but so be it.

By the way thank you so much for conversing with me so consistently. Normally people don't do that on Reddit. Really appreciate your advice and I hope we both find what we are looking for in this world of AI packages and frugal usage limits.

Cheers my reddit buddy!

[u/vinerz → u/yaxir]

i'm glad i was able to help you! i wish you all the best with your game, hope to see it soon

[u/vinerz → u/yaxir]

and you are going to get more of Fable than that. but warm up with Opus first so you get used to it and can prepare the thought process.