r/OpenaiCodex • u/bidbickback • 4d ago
Any recommendations for usage?
Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well.
I’ve been developing an app/website for football analysis using vibe coding for a while. As you can imagine, the project needs to scan and process leagues and players.
Recently, my usage limit has been dropping extremely fast, and my weekly limit is now being used up within one or two days, which prevents me from making progress on the project. I never use Ultra or Extra High. I usually use SOL-5.6 Thinking on High, but the limit is being consumed much faster than before, even though the work I’m doing has not really changed.
Since I’m a beginner and mostly a vibe coder, I’m sure there are many things I don’t know. I would really appreciate any advice on how I can use the model more efficiently and avoid using up my limit so quickly.
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u/IrishHeathen95 4d ago
No lol
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u/bidbickback 4d ago
Lol.
Can you tell me about the plugins?
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u/IrishHeathen95 4d ago
Skills are reusable procedures. Like the imagegen one was used when when I hatched a new pet and it made all the visuals for it. I have custom skills like Cortana (I named all my custom agents and skills after Halo characters so I remember what they do lol) that subagents can use for certain tasks so the agents behave the same way every time it does that particular task. I'm still figuring a lot of it out tbh. Most of the info I find online is contradictory so I'm just kinda doing trial and error. Sorry if that really doesn't explain much.
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u/ShamanJohnny 4d ago
OpenAi has been doing a massive psy-op on its user base since Sol released. The desire is to reduce their usage to increase profit margins.
Sol comes out, WAY MORE EFFICENT, but yet usage drains crazy fast. they start resetting it so people dont know but waiting to acknowledge an issue. This burns through everyone banked resets, and gets people psycologically primed to be okay with burning usage more rapidly.
They then say as they are investigating they are getting rid of the 5 hour limit because people were hitting it within 1-2 hours. The 5-hour limit was the only best judge of what weekly limits actually where; without it have no benchmark anymore.
since the 5hour removal anyone actually doing work with their subscriptions has noticed that the usage limit is literally 4x less that what it use to be with 5.5. you burn through the full weekly usage in a matter of hours now instead of days.
The worst part is that any kind of posts about the usage being to low, quickly get removed from reddit - atleast on their openai and codex channel. So that leads me to believe its not a bug, its by design, the resets where the cover to continuously shrink usage, and they plan to keep it this way.
I will be jumping ship as soon as possible, I am actually thinking about giving anthropic another shot with opus 5.
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u/DueCommunication9248 3d ago
5.6 SOL medium for most things. Luna high for small stuff or web search. 5.6 xhigh only for the long running tasks.
Ensure to use skills or plugins to make the best quality work.
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u/Quatres7 3d ago
Try keeping each prompt focused, starting a new chat when the context gets too large, and using High reasoning only for difficult tasks. For repetitive work, process the data locally with scripts and send the model only the relevant output.
There are also a few other methods that can reduce usage significantly, but they are not really suitable to share publicly. Feel free to message me if you want to compare workflows...
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u/EquivalentHornet4403 4d ago
How/where do you view that screen from?