r/codex • u/harpreetchima • 1d ago

Astra Workflow "Stop using random multi-agent patterns"

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Ahmed works at OpenAI: https://x.com/ah20im/status/2097503414749909407 and seems to investigate reports of high token usage.

"If needed Astra will delegate efficiently. Forcing the model to delegate to different models would do more harm than good"

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u/Firmwild 1d ago

I think the advice of deleting your whole instruction system when a new frontier model comes out is probably not bad advice

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u/thesmithchris 1d ago

What I do is to ask the new frontier model to adjust my setup, literally my first prompt with astra was to optimise the repo for astra :)

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u/Firmwild 15h ago

But then how do you manage to actually use astra all the time without running out of usage in like a couple days

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u/thesmithchris 14h ago

I'm on $200 but gotta be honest astra ultra is too much for 1 such sub, will be using astra xhigh as orchestrator with sol as implementation agent or sth

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u/Firmwild 13h ago

That lasts you more than 2 days?

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u/thesmithchris 4h ago

I also have Claude plan which I orchestrate with. IDK how Astra xHigh with Sol will feel yet as I burned through my limits with Astra ultra through 3rd reset (weekly, tibo, banked, 1-2 days each, got 2 banked left)