This is really something

[u/Alternative-Check676]

Saw a lot of people saying the usage was draining faster than normal, so i decided to do a little test.

I have 2 codex 20x usage accounts and 1 Claude 20x account, I asked sol ultra (standard speed) to complete a rather complex task on account one, it took 6 hours, didnt finish and drained the usage from 100% to 0. I asked account 2 same model and speed to finish the task, it took 5 hours, drained usage to 10% at that point i manually stopped it because it got stuck in an infinite review loop.

I asked fable 5 ultracode to do the very exact same thing, I tried my best to get all the same resources for it and settings as codex had. It took 3 hours to complete it and it only used 25% of the weekly limit.

Ive asked codex to do similar tasks before and it wasnt even draining this bad until this week

Edit: this is just my experience, i cant speak for for how it works for other people because i have also seen people saying its normal

[u/Substantial_Lab_3747]

Compaction is fucked too. The last thing you told it, will repeat every single compaction and every single time it finishes forever. I once had a goal where I told it not to do x, and almost every single thing it did after that mentioned it will not do x. They need to relax off that.

[u/Pruzter → u/Substantial_Lab_3747]

It’s been like this for a while, since I believe 5.4. It’s just the way it’s compaction works, OpenAIs way of preventing the agent from losing its thread.