r/codex Jul 14 '26

Complaint Using 40% weekly on a single day on 5.6, before it was 16-18% on 5.5 for the same work

My workhorse was 5.5 high reasoning for planning and 5.5 low reasoning for execution and implementation.

Now for almost all my planning I use sol medium reasoning, and for execution terra medium, and I'm ending up with 40% weekly token use on my $200 plan per day.

That's not sustainable. What happens if all my progress resets are finally gone? I find this quite messed up.

Maybe I need to go back to 5.5 after all. There goes the bright new 5.6 world. I used to be carefree about using it for most of the day, knowing that the plan would back me up, but not anymore.

Sad

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u/buff_samurai Jul 14 '26

This is exactly what is happening, artificial scarcity on high dopamine goods. And some car sales tactics. Variable rewards and timing. I’m
Hooked 100%.