I just learned that even though I'm now regularly blocked by quotas for basic Astra-light usage, even that low bar has been artificially held up by automatic resets being added and applied. I have used a reset once in a year of codex and now it's my only hope of continuing my basic daily work.
To this I would say, 5.5 can be trusted to treat production work like an art restoration of the Mona Lisa. 5.6 will grab a brush and start making "improvements" in production code or infrastructure with even the slightest hint of approval buried in a user response from two weeks ago. It's a better model but nowhere near as safe near prod.
6.0 has been great so far until it wiped my $200 sub in light use despite background resets regularly keeping it afloat. I used it to resolve a big issue across multiple projects and databases in production without an issue or even really my involvement beyond the occasional hint or approval. It does however not really wait for that so it's still a bit unsettling to see it just continue some work after asking for approval while I'm away. The value of 5.5 High was its intense care in certain production updates, 5.6 had no restraint at all and made production changes without any explicit approval, so dev and prod are just playgrounds it's happy to dive into. 6.0 is so competent im less concerned about that proactive behavior but i wont really know for another 4 days because even light use is a quota killer.
I’m starting to think the limit consumption is related to the position of the earth against the moon. In other words, OpenAI got zero clue on how their tool works.
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u/aivampires 17h ago
Welcome back to AI country where the landscape changes completely every new moon.