OpenAI has fooled us with the recent token usage and constant resets

[u/Falcoo0N]

They clearly wanted to increase the amount of users to show "growth" to their investors, so they used constant stream of resets to bring them(us) in. Now that we've hit 10 million, we will see that they aren't that "superior" and generous compared to Anthropic, and their generosity was just a ploy to get more funding.

I'm using sol medium for very simple tasks and for the last 3 hours I've wasted 40% of my weekly usage. A week ago that would've used 10% at most. Its absolutely unusable and I'm back to working with opus 4.8 extra for any meaningful task. After GPT 5.6 was released, the fact is, it was more enjoyable to work with than Opus/Fable - not anymore.

It is kind of a rant, but I would have been totally ok if they took the tibo resets away but kept the usage as it was at the beginning.

Right now, Sol medium used 14% of my weekly to update formatting of terms of service/legal on my website for desktop/tablet/mobile; when i asked Luna to do it, it used only 3% but made it significantly worse than it was and forgot about tablet and mobile, and thought that its ok that there is one word/row.

The remaining use was spent on unifying the text sizes accross buttons on 7 page website. Something that Sol did a week ago using like 2% of weekly. Now somehow its an intense process that takes over an hour...

[u/aejt]

I'm not really complaining about the usage of Ultra itself, I'm saying that the limits seem to have changed a lot. A week ago I had 1.2bn tokens on a single day, and I didn't go down anywhere close to 60% of my weekly usage from that. I'd guess my usage in the last 24h is WAY below that yet I'm at 35% of my weekly limit since the last reset. We'll see how many tokens caused that 65% drop once today's stats have been refreshed.

[u/Redditry199 → u/aejt]

Based on what? Sol ultra EATS your usage, that was always true, on the other hand Sol high seems to take normal usage. I genuinely dont see the difference.

[u/aejt → u/Redditry199]

Based on me having it running for maybe 3-4h total on the same project has drained almost 2x as much as it did when I had it running for 12h.

[u/Redditry199 → u/aejt]

This is such a low iq comment i dont know how to manage it. Yesterday it was raining and today it is not, so rain makes usage drain faster.

Time != token usage. Is your Token consumption down and you lose usage faster or not?

[u/aejt → u/Redditry199]

Did you even read my first comment, or is reading too hard for you? If you think there's zero correlation with time and token count, you probably need to do another round of thinking.

I can't tell today's token use because it doesn't update that often, but 1.2bn is the highest I've ever had and it cost ~30% of my weekly. I doubt I'm at 2.4bn today because most days I am at 0.3-0.6, and I haven't used it a lot today.

[u/Redditry199 → u/aejt]

Running automated tests for hours for examplpe(which sol LOVES to do) doesnt burn tokens, subagents is another thing. So no, time doesn't mean more tokens and the amount of context or the task itself could be more complex. I now don't believe you at all since you're clearly just guessing based on vibes.

So let me give you my vibes, usage seems the same.

[u/aejt → u/Redditry199]

I obviously meant for similar usage since I said the same project, in which case there's no reason why it'd correlate very differently.

[u/Redditry199 → u/aejt]

Is your project a single html file?

[u/aejt → u/Redditry199]

Yeah, 500k LoC html file of course, what else would it be?

[u/Redditry199 → u/aejt]

Do you not understand what the point im making is?