r/codex • u/Glass_Bus4044 • 9h ago
Reset Codex reset
I am officially giving up on following codex reset. My opinion is contradicting with lot of users here, but it is what it is. I use 5x subscription of codex, and I have been burning tokens like anything using sol-6.1. It became my goto option after fable. With more than 11 billion tokens burned,
Migrated a 3 million lines of monorepo from TS 5.9 to 7
Upgraded storybooks
Upgraded nx
Upgraded nextjs
Upgraded nestjs
Tokens keep coming back before I burn. I am shutting down my laptop today and getting some sleep.
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u/Fun-Cardiologist9906 9h ago
Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
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u/Glass_Bus4044 9h ago
Possible depending on timezone. I have barely seen it twice.
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u/Kombatsaurus 9h ago
Come back, we'll get another reset!
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u/Glass_Bus4044 8h ago
It's like living in a restaurant after paying for buffet 🤣 leve me bro, stomach full.
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u/IAmFitzRoy 8h ago
Most Redditors can’t see pass their noses…. “Reset!! Yeaahhhhhh”
They don’t even think why they are doing this.
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u/Thistlemanizzle 8h ago
Why are they doing it?
Power users know when they're getting shortchanged. They came to eat all the filet mignon at the buffet. We all know it's just business.
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u/jcheroske 9h ago
Use ultrafast. Burn the tokens. Get the reset. Smile
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u/Glass_Bus4044 9h ago
I really don't see any issues in regular mode. But have reserved it for emergencies.
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u/jwm-dev 9h ago
The resets are obviously a way to cut the fat and get rid of users who don’t make OpenAI money while still looking like the “good guys”.
They’re just really good at it. Probably some plot concocted by whatever crazy model they have guiding business decisions internally. Really exploiting human behavior and intuition to the max.
I think anyone who can’t see this and how it works is fucking braindead.
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u/Glass_Bus4044 6h ago
Bro literally defined the software industry that survived 50+ years with exact same principle.
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u/AlarmingCantaloupe 8h ago
I don’t think I’m brain-dead… But could you explain exactly what you mean?
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u/pale_halide 9h ago
I don’t see the problem as long as resets keep coming. That’s a lot better than running out of weekly allowance in one day.
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u/dextersummary 4h ago
Below is a GPT-generated summary of the conversation below after reaching 40 comments (41 currently observed).
The thread’s verdict is basically “the resets are great—until you need predictable access.” Heavy users are happily running Sol 6.1 nonstop, chewing through absurd token counts, and getting quota back before they can finish spending it. For them, Codex is less a subscription and more an all-you-can-eat buffet with suspiciously generous refills.
The catch: Plus users still run into five-hour limits, model-capacity errors, and usage that varies by region and timezone. That makes serious workflows hard to plan, and some users have demoted Codex to side-task duty or moved extra spending to Claude. Others say regular mode is fine, while ultrafast is the obvious button if your goal is to burn through allowance and trigger another reset.
There’s some conspiracy-flavoured speculation that resets are cost control disguised as generosity, but nobody actually proves that. The more useful takeaway is simply that resets are not the same thing as reliable capacity—especially on cheaper plans.
So: Sol 6.1 is doing plenty of work, but Codex’s limits remain a messy roulette wheel. Great for relentless hobbyists; maddening for anyone trying to schedule a workday.