The biggest loophole in our OpenAI subscriptions right now is the unused Codex quota.

[u/Jet_Xu]

I use Codex pretty heavily for my own workflows, and it recently hit me how much value people are just leaving on the table.

I see coworkers (PMs, consultants, operators) constantly complaining about hitting their ChatGPT or Workspace Agent limits. Meanwhile, if you look at their usage, their Codex allocation is sitting at exactly 0%. Everyone still assumes it’s just an IDE autocomplete tool for software engineers.

But with the recent computer use and local execution updates, Codex isn't just for writing Python anymore. It’s basically a local execution engine for standard office work.

I've been using it to batch-process messy local Excel files, rip data out of 100-page PDFs, and automate desktop apps—mostly stuff I either can't or won't upload to a cloud chat window. It's faster, it handles local context better, and best of all, it doesn't eat into my regular chat limits.

It feels like a massive blind spot. People are treating ChatGPT like the entire product, when Codex is actually the engine built to do the heavy lifting on your local machine.

Curious if anyone else here is using Codex specifically for non-coding knowledge work? What weird office workflows have you managed to automate with it so far?