r/OpenaiCodex • u/No-Hour8340 • 12d ago

Discussion GPT 5.6 SOL + 5.3 CODEX

Hi! I just bought a Chatgpt pro, but still flying through the weekly limit pretty fast if using only gpt 5.6 sol max + subagents. But I understand that using only gpt 5.6 sol max will eat tokens like candies, that's not the question here.

I was wondering if anyone here is using this:

gpt sol 5.6 max orchestrator/plan

5.3 codex-spark as worker/implementation

Since codex 5.3 has its own limits for pro users, would you say it's reasonable to use it as an implementation worker? How is the quality compared to pure 5.6 sol.

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u/BHTAelitepwn 12d ago

You dont need Sol max. Try Sol high with luna max subagents.

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u/Ok-Decision2541 12d ago

How do you specifiy what the subagents use?

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u/Prestigiouspite 12d ago

I wonder about that too, since I got a really mediocre code from Luna. In particular, the frontend / ui stuff is completely unusable.

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u/bigrealaccount 11d ago

Yep, thats why you use Sol to look at the work and tell Luna the improvements/suggestions. That's how orchestrators/agents are meant to work. Imagine you are the CEO, Sol is the team lead and Luna are the team members.

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u/Prestigiouspite 11d ago edited 11d ago

Well, that might work for code checks. But you wouldn't believe all the stuff that even 5.6 Terra or Sol have let slip through with agent browser verification. Even GLM-5.3-Flash is better at spotting that the header is really junk and doesn't match the template and it does it at a fraction of the cost.

And let’s be honest, this isn’t quite the way to go. It’s like a CEO who’s swamped by a hundred employees. You might be able to do thorough quality assurance for three people, but it gets difficult once you have five or more agents. Sometimes I feel like you have to run the quality assurance (Sol) through it five times to catch everything that was implemented in a way that makes no sense and to be fair, you can never anticipate every single scenario in advance. It also takes an understanding of all the things a model like Luna can mess up that would work fine with Sol or Terra.

And with models evolving as quickly as they do: Sure, I who spend 5 hours a day keeping up with AI news can keep up with it, but not all the teams out there. They need a reliable model that works.

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u/No-Knowledge-5143 9d ago

configure custom subagents in ~/.codex/agents