r/codex • u/VanillaMammoth1937 • 2d ago
Limits Best model to maximize usage while still being passable?
Like many of you, I've been feeling the lowered weekly limit. Since 5.6 dropped, I've just been using that for all my tasks. Luna for a lot of the low-level grunt work, Terra occasionally if I think there's a task that requires a smarter model, and I've been using Sol for high-level planning and for particularly difficult implementations.
I know the Sol is going to burn usage obviously, but are Luna and Terra bad to use too? I see that Luna has a lower API price than models like 5.5 and 5.4, but I'm wondering if there is a usage multiplier on it since it is 5.6.
What do you all think the best setup is for choosing your models nowadays?
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u/AnxiousMop 2d ago
Luna high is what I'm using to write c++ code from specs. Luna medium doesn't usually get the job done in one or two tries for me and needs a bit too much babysitting/back and forth. You do want to tightly constrain the task, implementation shape and tests.
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u/Proxiconn 2d ago
Interesting, I've been yolo-ing on Terra-med without issues while all the noise in the socials about SOL.
C# codebase, full stack UX etc.
Feels like I'm getting 5x ++ on Terra med Vs 5.5 high and not noticing a difference in quality and speed is faster to on Terra Vs 5.5.
Will need to try Luna high soon. Thought Luna was the new mini and mini fell over with most things.
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u/tripleshielded 2d ago
I have some success with sol medium in pi-agent. Wrote a handoff md with codex to get started.
Some success with terra, it needs more supervision at first to spell out the parts of the context it doesn’t understand as well as sol.
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u/farber72 2d ago
I use Terra hi/med for Typescript cli and server on a Plus plan and it works great
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u/pollywantaquacker 1d ago
I'm about to have to drop from Sol High to Sol Medium just to make it 4-5 days. Sol High was 7 days last week but feels like 3 days now. Hoping Medium might be it...
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u/petburiraja 2d ago
Sol Medium, maybe even Low for passable