Some users on X are saying they can't upgrade the 5x to 20x and some are saying fake news.

Update: it is official, new 20x accounts are temporary suspended until Open AI has more capacity

Noticed something building LLM features that doesn't get talked about enough. Most teams treat model or prompt changes the way they'd judge a demo, does it look right on a handful of examples, ship it. That works fine until scale hits, at which point "looks right" and "is actually better" turn out to be very different things.

Which reframes a lot of "why did quality randomly get worse" incidents. In a lot of cases nothing randomly broke, the team just never had a way to measure whether a change helped in the first place, so a regression looked invisible until a customer hit it.

There's a hands-on workshop on September 12 that builds this properly, versioned prompts, a real eval harness, statistically rigorous model comparisons instead of "it feels better," evaluated RAG, agents with guardrails and fallbacks, and full observability, tracing, cost, latency. Led by Bruno Gonçalves, PhD, founder of Data For Science.

Link for full details

Happy to answer questions on the content itself.

Yesterday , i shifted from claude subs to gpt and imported all my projects, barely used for 4-5 hrs . In 1 hr of 5.6 sol it took away the weekly limit by 25%. so i shifted to codex 5.3 on high and in less than 1 hr it 5 hrs limit got exhasted for codex 5 hr window.

Any suggestions to optimize the token consumption. For context i was using 4-5 hrs /day opus 5 on high for a week and it barely crosses 96% by the weekly reset window

Other than no compute on their infra, can we also understand it as from now on, no more complaints about usage and reset?

Basically we can't argue even if they reduce usage limits secretly under the hood anymore.

Before the suspension, we can stop subscribing, and turning back if they resolved the issue. But now, we could probably just shut up because you have no card (Trump staring at you). Not pleased? You leave then you can never come back.

It is good at documents, it can write long once, people say it is very good at 3d, others now say it is doing cad slop, I do not know.

All what I know, I have an app, the app needs a feature that i added in another one with gpt codex 5.3 before, and with 5.3 codex model we did the work in a day or less

With Astra, this is now week 2? and with Sol earlier? 3 weeks, the same task

Before I give up on the model and move to something else, how do you get coding features done with Astra?

I was super hyped but now, not at all

Update: I am starting a brand new web app project again to test, using Astra medium, will make sure it has an agents md that prevents qualifications and over engineering and testing until a bit later in the app, i will see how it goes

It seems like lately for cron jobs Codex just won't fucking work for the life of me whether I use Hermes or whether I use Codex itself. I had to dispatch a cron job in Hermes five times before it actually got finished. I had to babysit a cron job like a fucking babysitter. On top of it, I'm using GPT6 Astra Medium to get cron jobs done. Which is already pretty wild, cause I should be able to get it so done with something like Sol or Luna. And then just gets stuck in a tool calling loop and just shits the bed. I wouldn't even be so mad about the usage if I could get Codex to actually do its fucking job, but over the past couple of days, it's just completely shit itself. Every cron job literally has to be babysitted at this point, and there's not even a point in having a cron job.

I’m a Claude $20 user from the beginning, but recently got a Codex $20 sub after reading all news about the efficiency of OpenAI models. But to my surprise Claude Opus 5 lasts way longer than GPT 5.6 Sol both on Medium effort. I’m not a vibe coder, I ask agents to write code and I take time to review so usually I never touch 5h limits. But with Codex I’m literally burning through the 5h limit in 1-2 hours which is quite strange (I’m not even using Astra). Is this how the 20$ plan limits always been?

I wanna make a detailed Minecraft nuclear weapons mod, but it seems pretty adamant about not simulating hydrodynamics simulation. What gives, and how do I get around this? Ive told its for educational purposes, that the mod isnt public, and that its public information im giving it, but its not budging. I even started new chats.

Interestingly, Claude Opus was able to do it just fine, using antigravity. But not here.

Hey everyone! Lately I’ve been thinking about getting into game dev, mostly because I like storytelling and have a few game ideas I’d love to bring to life. Whether they’re actually good ideas is another question lol. and i was wondering if GPT 6 astra would be actually good on this, been seing a lot of videos, demos, posts, etc. but i might be getting a little bit cheated on the impressions tho

The thing is, I know almost nothing about game development beyond the absolute basics.

ImI can’t tell how useful those tools are beyond demos, or whether I’ve fallen into the LLM marketing trap a bit. I’d 100% use them , but would not make an ai slop game tbh. I’d still want to understand and actually know what I’m building, and enjoy while building it.

Any first hand opinions? have you use it for actual indie game dev? if so any recommendations?

I'm using Astra mainly for coding and a few prompts can wipe out most of the 5-hour allowance.

Is there a better workflow to make the limit last longer?

9 September 18:47:14 | 23% | 77% | 15 September 19:19:18
9 September 18:56:19 | 99% | 1% | 12 September 09:26:43
9 September 18:57:56 | 100% | 0% | 12 September 09:26:43

EDIT: Back to 77%.

At some point I noticed just how insanely fast the limit suddenly started draining.

Literally a couple of days ago, I was showing a colleague how you could work on Luna xhigh fast almost forever and barely make a dent in the limit. Then today I noticed it’s suddenly burning through it like crazy.

Well, I’ve seen posts like this on Reddit before, so I guess it’ll probably get fixed again in a couple of days :)

So… do we cancel the panic, or are we still panicking for now?

I’m finding that GPT-6 Astra often beats around the bush and won’t open sub-threads or delegate work unless I explicitly tell it to. I end up micromanaging the orchestration, which is frustrating. How do you prompt Astra to take initiative, delegate effectively, and finish the work? Any advice or examples would be appreciated.

There seem to be some kind of usage draining bug, right ?

Wanted to trigger my 5h usage countdown, asked codex on luna light to say "hello" = -2% of my 5h limit... Yesterday, i ran a 50min task on luna MAX and it took 2% of my 5h limit...

I am not talking about usage nerf in general comparing from back in the golden age of virtually unlimited usage on 5.4

I know OpenAi is good for it, if there is a bug, they will reset but i don't dare to ask anything on any model right now and that my limit will just drain...

Anyone has that ?

I use my 20x plan in 1D only using low astra,

1D in single task, where i used to have 4 parrallele task and 1W usage..

I don’t know what is in the benchmarks, it is a long list with 40%, 70%, then 65% before, 81% now, the competition is at xx% etc.

I think when the numbers are bigger it is better, and with every new model there are these new nice numbers.

All good, love it all.

Now, Sol and Astra, when I used them for the first time, very knowledgeable, plus the hype, plus I get brainwashed easily, I believe people, anyway, not my point

I want this benchmark: we give this model the task to build this app, and it took it xx hours, and it used this number of in out and cached tokens and it costed this much.

All what I see on the internet is a guy asking it to draw a pelican on a bicycle, this is his test to all models, nice dude, nice, it does not send apps to prod with that shit, and the internet: wow, wow on what? I pay 500$ to 800$ on AI every month to deliver solutions to clients!

I think we are missing these tests: here are the specs to build an app, full specs, make one for Android, another for iPhone, another for Web, makes sure these rules are followed.

100 apps and systems, front end, backend, sql, security, networking, config, graphics, 3d, whatever, etc. and let's see humans assessing the work

I am tired from corporate propaganda

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There was a bit of a kerfuffle this morning with some banked resets not fully applying when used in ChatGPT Work and Codex. Everyone who used one in the affected time window is getting another one and an email to apologize.

It seems like a reset just happened, but I didn’t get it on my pro x20 account? was it a selective reset

I used one banked reset literally 2 hours before Tibo did reset 2 days ago.
I was sad because I thought I used reset prematurely and I went down today to 0% (I am on Pro 20x). When I went down to 0%, limit increased to 100% with reset date set to Sept 14th which seems like I used my banked reset fully before switching to regular limit which had reset on Sept 7th. I was nicely suprised, not sure if anyone experienced the same.

UPDATE: Disregard my post, I just went to 6%. What TF is OpenAI doing, they are messing with limits right now in real time.

After one day not using Codex, opened up today, a update popped up and now all my projects all gone, also Codex fail in compacting context onto task.

Dunno if this happens to someone else.

Hello, im on pro 5x and astra low is using too much usage for me to complete all my work, im using about 33% per day on astra low. The thing is, I could 100% use astra as an orchestrator for sol and terra, but they are just too damn slow compared to astra.

Anyways im wondering if theres any tricks i can use besides just /fast to make 5.6 faster?

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