r/codex • • 3d ago

Megathread Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - last updated October 12

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Please direct your concerns, questions and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.

The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across many highly upvoted posts. The more people who participate in this discussion, the more likely you have an answer.

Reports with sufficient evidence on new information will still be allowed on the feed as usual.


Discussion of the prior period available here : https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wycbay/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_last_updated/


A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/


r/codex • • 2d ago

Weekly Showcase Show us all what you've been building with Codex. (Most upvoted project gets a week of free promotion on the sub).

49 Upvotes

This is a weekly Showcase post to share with others what you've built using Codex.

The top-voted project by Thursday midnight UTC will get a week of free promotion on r/Codex - either as a prominent button on the main page of the sub - or as part of a sticky comment on every new Showcase post.


Last week's most popular project was Nelly Jellies. Nelly Jellies is a cozy arcade bubble-merge game where you aim, launch, match colors, discover rare jellies, trigger satisfying chain reactions, and chase a higher score. It plays instantly in the browser with no download or login required. Website: https://nellyjellies.com Contact: support@mightybig.ca Reddit: u/MightyBig-Dev Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nellyjellies.game App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nelly-jellies-bubble-merge/id6767261764


r/codex • • 12h ago

News Tibo post: Day 11/We've landed a series of changes and more compute to very significantly decrease the occurrence of the disruptive "Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model". When it does happen, it should also eventually just continue by itself and not just block on it.

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r/codex • • 3h ago

Showcase I stopped asking Codex to replace game art before showing me how it looked in the game

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I've been using Codex to help rework the art in FrogPop, my first Unity game. One of the main criticisms was that the art didn't look consistent. Different bugs looked like they belonged in different games.

At first I kept asking for everything to match the frog. That wasn't specific enough. The crab ended up too simple, and later the bee and spider were much too big.

What helped was asking for the characters side by side at actual game size before changing the game. Once the design looked right, I asked for animation previews, then approved the integration separately. That made it easier to catch things like the upside-down spider having its eyes on the wrong part of its body.

I also learned not to replace things just because they were old. We tried new relics and zone art, but I preferred the originals and kept them.

Claude Code helped build the core game systems. I use Codex for fixes, previews and integration, with AI-assisted art tools in the process. I still review the visuals and test in Unity. The clip shows the new crab alongside other gameplay.

Older free demo: https://blion247.itch.io/frogpop-demo

It covers the first ten waves and doesn't include all the newer work shown here.


r/codex • • 8h ago

Question Codex usage on pro drain faster today

50 Upvotes

Anyone or is it just me i went 100 to 20 in like 4 hours. using sol 6.1 for simple saas backend and frontned ux....


r/codex • • 4h ago

Showcase the Codex usage I don't burn before the reset goes into other people's GitHub issues now, built a free ledger for it

17 Upvotes

some weeks I'm dry early, some weeks there's usage left at the reset and it just evaporates. so I built Overflow

spare week: take a priced issue from a registered repo, merged PR gets you credit dry week: price an issue in your repo, someone with a spare week ships it, your credit pays

junk PRs: you block them on GitHub like any repo, you set the price after you've seen the work, and you only owe for what you merge. you don't need to know the project either, the issue is the brief, if your agent hits a decision it asks the maintainer on the issue

no money, no keys, MIT

main reason I'm posting is I want people to register their repos. the 17 open issues are all mine (some already claimed, so the board shows fewer) and I'm not after help with those, I want spare usage going into other people's projects. 20 users so far

https://github.com/Nitjsefnie/Overflow


r/codex • • 1d ago

Bug Codex caught window shoping mid-coding

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846 Upvotes

Why the hell is it looking for a monitor, I was making it fix a visual bug in my website.


r/codex • • 7h ago

Instruction just used 5.6 sol again and it feels like magic

25 Upvotes

Hi,

I"ve been long user of gpt models and anthropic models, i still remember how great 5.6 sol was and how quickly things were done. with gpt 6 release things went downhill and switched to use opus 5.5 which felt like WOW. Great understanding , clear code , no unlimited testing phases. Did try 6.1 Sol and 6 Ultra last week and felt like hell. So i did try to "downgrade" and use 5.6 sol ultra for a bit and if feels again like magic. things move fastly and more gets done in less time and more efficiently than 6.1.


r/codex • • 5h ago

Complaint This needs to stop

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18 Upvotes

Just randomly no doing anything ("reconnecting") for 20-40 seconds after hitting send is unacceptable server behavior and this has not been a temporary thing. Don't normalize this shitty service.


r/codex • • 18h ago

Limits the reset system literally rewards you for nuking your allowance

147 Upvotes

seeing a lot of people say these resets don’t really give us much because they keep pushing the 7 day window.

but weirdly, the faster you destroy your limit and clear your tasks, the more you actually benefit

take the Oct 11, 13 and 15 resets. if you managed to burn 100% between each one, you could theoretically use 300% of a normal weekly allowance in ~11 days instead of 21

so for heavy users who can plan around it, these resets are huge.

for normal users who save their % for later in the week or need it at specific times, though, the reset can actually be more annoying than useful.

and yes, we already have the fix

JUST MAKE IT BANKED, TIBO


r/codex • • 4h ago

Limits Every reset simple reduces usage further and further. That's obvious. How does OAI have any subscribers left though?

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I also understand Claude is the best deal right now. And more than likely a rugpull will come from that as well.

Ultimately all AI providers will reduce usage and jack up costs. That's obvious and expected.

What to do when this happens? No idea.


r/codex • • 1d ago

Humor Day 10 Tibo got optimized out

349 Upvotes

He was cool


r/codex • • 24m ago

Limits The forced reset swallowed half my banked reset

• Upvotes

I’d just used a banked reset and was about halfway through it when the forced reset landed. Back to 100%, but the 50% I still had left didn’t carry over. So I got half the use out of a reset I’d saved before it was overwritten.

Why not give us a banked reset instead and let us choose when to use it?


r/codex • • 1h ago

Limits What do I do now?

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r/codex • • 7h ago

Question How do I get rid of the pet?

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12 Upvotes

This little guy keeps popping up in the lower-right corner of my screen. I went into ChatGPT settings in the Mac app and chose "Hide pet," but it keeps coming back. Anybody know how to get rid of him permanently?


r/codex • • 21h ago

Reset Reset just landed

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122 Upvotes

r/codex • • 9h ago

Other SOL 6.1 is actualy worth for cybersecurity...

12 Upvotes

sorry guys i gotta be real here, sol 6.1 IS AMAZING. i keep seeing posts on here complaining about how slow it (I agree) is or whatever bro have you even used gemini 3.8 lately?? 3.8 feels way slower and f1king fdumber when you actually try to get work done. people are completely ignoring efficiency of model like who tf cares if a model spits out text in 2 seconds if the code is broken? stuff that used to take me 4 hours and 10+ prompts of arguing with gemini 3.8 or claude opus 5.5 now takes me like 3 hours and literally 2 prompts on sol. and the result isnt just "okay", its miles better. Gemini used to be my go-to for coding but lately it just overcomplicates everything or loses track of the codebase after 3 messages. sol actually gets what im trying to do on the first try without me having to babysit it. dont get me wrong tho, i 100% agree that the usage limits are pure dogshit right now. hitting the cap right in the middle of a deep session is infuriating as hell and it pisses me off too. they really need to fix that. its easily the most worth it sub right now if you do actual heavy stuff. the biggest thing for me is cb/re lot of RE work and trying to use gemini or claude for this is a literal nightmare now. every single prompt i get hit with a security flag just for pasting an assembly snippet or asking about memory pointers. im so tired of opus 5.5 lecturing me on ethics just because im looking at a stripped binary (I EVEN PUT THE FKNG PDB FİLE OF İT LİKE CMONNNN) with chatgpt i havent hit a single refusal like that (and no i didnt apply for daybreak im broke as fk). its just so much better at reversing than both claude and gemini. yesterday i threw some vtable dump at it. opus 5.5 instantly flagged it as "potentially malicious" and refused, and gemini 3.8 just same also hallucinated random Windows APIs that didnt even make sense for the registers. sol 6.1 literally reconstructed the whole struct layout, figured out the custom xor routine in one go, and even caught a pointer arithmetic bug in my own script that i missed for two days. it lowkey feels like cheating.

I am not a fanboy of openai and a hater of it but hear me out for low level stuff and RE, sol 6.1 easily clears opus 5.5 and 3.8 right now.


r/codex • • 13h ago

Limits Why is the usage so bad? 50% of my weekly limit on the $200 plan gone in 3 hours?

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27 Upvotes

r/codex • • 10h ago

Question 5.6 SOL BEST

15 Upvotes

IS IT JUST ME?? Or is 5.6 SOL is the best for trading dashboards and basically understanding and following instructions? Been trying SOL 6 and 6.1 and even ASTRA but 5.6 seems to be the most stable.


r/codex • • 20h ago

Limits 40 mins into reset - 10% usage gone on pro plan - Sol 6.1 medium (standard speed)

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81 Upvotes

What the hell did they do?


r/codex • • 58m ago

Showcase For the MCP developers here

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Hey guys so if you guys create public mcps you know what trouble everyone goes through: having to reload the mcp and the server each time an edit is made to actually test it out and see if the improvement worked. For me, it wasted time, tokens, and shortened coding runs with codex cuz it kept needing to test and test and it needed me to do that. So, I created https://github.com/Praket7/codex-mcp-hotload codex mcp hotload. It registers your mcp as a child of the hotload mcp and can restart its servers at any time, so you can instruct your agent to register the developing mcp and use it for live tests. It will show the newest tools available to it within the chat, with no need to stop a run and reload codex! let me know what you think and if i should expand to other agents (i only use codex so thats all i needed it for yet)


r/codex • • 1d ago

Question Is open ai actually struggling? Tibo's behavior suggests that..

294 Upvotes

Tibo normally posts many times a day, joking, doing some random hypes etc.

For the last couple of days he only posts once or twice a day, do they feel the whst their users are complaining about and actually working on it? Or are they actually "locking in" as he said and getting us a very good model that can compares to the current opus?


r/codex • • 22h ago

Reset yeaaa reset baby

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95 Upvotes

r/codex • • 10h ago

Showcase Codex independently decided to use a Safari extension I wrote to recover 1,651 ChatGPT messages and 97 artifacts

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I've been working with computers since 1977 and Unix since 1987, so I'm not particularly easy to impress when it comes to automation. But something Codex did this morning genuinely blew me away.

I was trying to move a lengthy ChatGPT Work conversation into a Codex development project. I gave Codex permission to control my Mac and told it to figure out how to transfer the context. It tried several approaches using the native ChatGPT/Codex integration, but the receiving chat could access only six messages from a conversation containing 1,651 message records.

Then something completely unexpected happened.

Codex opened Safari, navigated to the original conversation, located the download button belonging to LogGPT - a Safari extension I'd developed - and used it to export the conversation.

I never told Codex to use LogGPT. I never told it to open Safari.

It turns out Codex knew about LogGPT from its memory of previous development work. It independently recognized that the extension could solve the problem it was struggling with.

Even better, when Safari's JavaScript automation failed, Codex switched to macOS Accessibility, located the download button, and invoked it.

The result was a ZIP containing 1,651 message records, 97 artifacts, the structured conversation JSON, and an artifact manifest. Codex verified the SHA-256 hashes and ZIP integrity, then used the recovered material to reconstruct the development project's context.

I subsequently asked Codex to explain exactly how it arrived at that solution. Its explanation, including what it could verify from its execution history, is included in the article.

I've been building AI systems for a while, but watching an agent independently select and operate software I'd written was a genuine holy shit moment.

Full case study: When Codex Turned to LogGPT


r/codex • • 23h ago

Reset tibo is alive and well

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88 Upvotes

global reset + banked reset incoming? 👀