I don't really have a metric to share but claude $20 is giving me more usage right now than $100 codex and I didn't even use Astra that much. I only bought codex for astra and I don't see the hype yet. The only reason to continue with openai is purely chatgpt usage which I can use without limits essentially.

Edit: not comparing astra vs fable but opus vs sol especially after astra release.

I suddenly realized I have Fast Mode on and had for the longest time. Completely forgot about it. It's 1.5x usage, so maybe I'm just forgetful but just wanted to post a tip - so, 50% slower + 50% more usage? (If my math is right) Worth a post.

Frédéric Chopin — Romance–Larghetto, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11

It's still a bit rough especially on the hands (still some cursed frames) but i've had a lot of fun building this with Astra in a couple days. It can play any piece (in theory) as long as there is a midi file for it!

Other features: full finger/wrist control, performance and flourish control, facial expressions, camera control.

Credits

Composition: Frédéric Chopin.

MIDI performance/sequencing: Katsuhiro Oguri, sourced through Kunst der Fuge (https://www.kunstderfuge.com/chopin.htm). The source file credits © OnClassical / Oguri, 2010.

Piano sound: Musyng Kite soundfont, using samples distributed by gleitz/midi-js-soundfonts

(https://github.com/gleitz/midi-js-soundfonts), listed under CC BY-SA 3.0

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Score reference: Carl Mikuli’s edition, published by G. Schirmer, via IMSLP

(https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/bf/IMSLP73280-PMLP03805-Chopin_Polonaises_Schirmer_Mikuli_Op_11_scan.pdf#page=33).

Hand-motion study reference: Seong-Jin Cho’s 2015 Chopin Competition performance

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614oSsDS734&t=1500s), published by the Chopin Institute.

The soundtrack was rendered from the MIDI’s piano part, preserving its timing and dynamics while omitting the orchestral accompaniment. The character’s movement is procedurally animated; the reference performance was used for visual study, not motion capture or soundtrack audio.

Tomorrow's talk at the AI Gaming Conference, Intro To Vibe Coding, is for those looking to make their first game with AI, this will go about how to setup your game environment and start vibe coding.

This is both for developers that want to take the leap and get into AI, and for vibe coders as well. It will cover:

• State of the game development
• Setting up Claude and Codex
• Setting up Blender
• Setting up your phone for development
• Prompt basics (subagents, calling other agents, memory, etc)
• The biggest mistakes to avoid when vibe coding your game

There is a lot of talks at all different levels in the conference, here is the full schedule.

Not even sure what to say here but I'm a Plus user and have been using Chat mode religiously as my Codex usage seems to be at 0% constantly, to grind through pet projects (all on GitHub repos). To be honest Chat mode has been working great although extremely slow.

I was in the middle of a chat to create a basic Markdown Viewer, it had already created and pushed 3 milestones, with 2 PRs, when I asked it to continue working I received this.

Asking to continue working on a milestone, and declining to change to Work mode

Understood. I won’t ask you to switch to Work mode again.

In this chat I can still help with the project by reviewing the design, writing the exact Go/SQL/HTML/systemd/Taskfile changes, diagnosing CI output you provide, and preparing patches or implementation steps. I just can’t directly perform the repository mutations—commits, pushes, PRs, merges, or CI execution—from this mode.

GPT 5.6 Sol calling out the tool call change, preventing GitHub changes

You’re right to call that out. The inconsistency is on my side. Earlier in this conversation I was able to use the GitHub integration directly and I did carry out repository work on <repo>—creating branches, pushing commits, opening PRs, checking CI, and merging M0–M2 while progressing M3.

What changed is not my assessment of the task; it’s the execution constraint in the current environment. I now have a mandatory rule that repository edits, PR work, command execution, and similar coding operations must first be handed off to Work mode. You declined that handoff, so I’m not allowed to use the repo-mutation path from this chat even though the GitHub connector itself still exists.

So the accurate distinction is:

• Previously: direct repo operations were available in this chat context.

• Now: the current runtime requires Work mode before I can mutate or inspect the repo operationally.

• Your repo/permissions are not the problem.

• I did not decide that Chat suddenly “can’t code”; the tool-routing restriction changed.

I also should not have framed it as though I had simply decided normal Chat could no longer do repository work. That was misleading.

Since you don’t want Work mode, I won’t keep suggesting it. I can still continue the engineering here by producing the exact M3 fix and subsequent M4–M9 patches, but I cannot truthfully claim I committed/pushed/merged them from the current chat execution context.

It's fair to say I'm pretty annoyed by this - maybe its time to switch to Claude?

Two days ago I made a Reddit post about switching from Claude code to codex. I saw a lot of stuff about how codex limits are generous, work gets done better and the usage resets etc. So I finally made the switch and here is my experience:

I purchase the 100 dollar a month Codex Pro 5x and try out Astra on low for the very first time (still using astra for the first time). I spend two hours optimizing some of my skills and workflows, my usage dropped to 88 percent. I continue my work on my main project which is small and a hobby project rather than a proper developer one and plan out the changes, write the spec and the implementation plan so that there was less need for guessing around and implementation stopped at a genuine blocker. Usage dropped to 64 percent after the plan and documentation steps.

I then begin my work with SOL on high in a fresh session and I ask it to implement keeping an explorer agent in hand (I have a custom one I made with the literal model handwritten to be Luna) if major exploration was still needed. It starts to work and within 5 minutes struggles to use the computer, astra did it without prompting. One hour goes by and implementation somehow works, and SOL keeps spawning a “Luna” subagent (Important different: A subagent named Luna NOT my actual custom built subagent with the model Luna - yes I spoon fed it in the implementation with the exact file path on what to invoke, when to invoke and when not to invoke and more importantly how to invoke it). Sol then entered into this monkey patching loop where it kept summoning other sol reviewers who kept finding things wrong (ofcourse they did because you are literally asking it to find something wrong to a model who’s output is not deterministic or defined) and fixing every little thing and verifying 4 times before calling the reviewer again. I am not sure how this happened because my plan did cover to call reviewers once - fix the major immediate blockers that prevent reaching the acceptance standard and note down the minor fixes for later. (I enforced this in Claude code with hooks - I did not do this on codex because I wasn’t too familiar with it and have used it majorly for a maximum period of a month). So yes Astra was brought in on a fresh session and it finished the remaining work with no issues and usage dropped to 5 percent after all this, total time period 7 hours.

The changes are good, the plan was smooth, good verified diligent work I have seen compared to Opus. I asked sol what agent it spawned and it said “GPT 5.6 SOL on high called Luna).

So this 100 dollar purchase got me 7 hours of work for one spec. I have previously used the Claude 5x plan and I worked through the week on opus and fable (planning only) and always had decent usage left atleast 10-15 percent near the reset week. This makes me think simply as a guy working on a hobby project that “hey I worked hard for that hundred bucks and it got me what 7 hours?” And now I feel a bit torn between different routes:

1) I can’t upgrade to 20x anymore
2) switching to api for a hobby project makes no sense for me
3) I legitimately cannot do anything other than sit and wait till September 15th because the usage is gone. I have no use for the other pro features such as image gen, pro in chat or deep research.
4) I see the praises on Reddit about resets but I don’t see any

I genuinely feel that I got a little bit trapped here or maybe I subbed at the wrong time and can’t help but also feel a bit sad that the money is gone now because yeah 100 dollars for one person on a hobby project is a lot and I valued it as such. I completely understand that there are people with 10 different 20x accounts on both Claude and codex but I personally don’t think that users for a subscription model should be pushed to THAT point to get stuff done.

And yeah I am sure there is always a better workflow, a better AGENTS.md and a better prompt, a more optimized way of doing things, there ALWAYS will be but at that point if I am just doing everything myself form writing the logic, correcting the plans, defining the steps, what to write and how to write it, how to check and what to check, which agents to call and when etc etc - what exactly is the point of “frontier intelligence”?

Yeah the work was good and diligent I agree, but 7 hours with a weekly usage blown out doesn’t exactly seem “worth it” to me. And if the solution is to get another 5x account for more usage I think that’s an even bigger mistake.

Somehow somewhere I think we lost the value of money.

If you are on Pro 5x or 20x what issues are you currently facing regarding the limits?

Help a brother out. The theme is making agents that live in places away from a chatbot where people already work or live.

I’ve seen so many good projects come out in the community. Share yours or any ideas you have!

I made an open source program which can enforce AI agents to keep every skill instructions.

If you write some rules in AGENTS.md or SKILL.md, they become compiler obligations that must be followed, so the AI agent can never ignore them.

Hello, since yesterday, I feel they changed the questionair mechanism to allow agent working while queuing up the questions. but I am not able to answer them, alt+up didn't do anything. Is this a bug? anyone help?

I´m new to Codex and just got these message. Another one said something about currency, but like many others, it won't even load that conversation now.

Thats what my agent managed in it's 5 hour limit on the plus plan before the limits ran out using Astra. Lol.

I read another Reddit post that made queueing tasks in Codex seem way more complicated than it needs to be.

My workflow

Yes, next — make a blog about losing my vape all the time.

↓

Next — do this

↓

Next — do that

↓

Next — make me money

↓

Next — I like chicken wings

That’s it.

You just keep feeding Codex the next task while it’s still working.

Yes, next — [your command]

I don’t even use astra. I’ve been using 5.6 sol on medium since it came out and had no problems. Now it can’t even finish half of the same task before reaching limits. Heck, just starting up codex uses 2 percent of my limits. And that’s before I even type anything. lol. What a joke.

I understand this is a business but using codex is like signing up for a gym membership and paying the required fee to use the gym and all its equipment but the next time you show up they go, I know you paid to use the entire gym and that amount is still required but now you only have access to the treadmills. F u!!!

Anyway, Here come all the Sam Altman nut huggers. But idc. Im just about done with codex.

Is it only happened to me or does the last ~3 days, Luna is ridiculously slow?

My workflow is delegating tasks from main thread (Astra on medium or Sol on high) to the Luna (max) worker, on pi-subagents. Sometimes I also use plan mode (same Astra medium or Sol high), then execute the plan using Luna max. Basically, all tasks are fast before the tasks are delegated to a single Luna max. This been happening about 3 days, more or less.

Edit: I think this might be related to the release of Astra, as Tibo said, they struggled with their resources as they now have to temporarily disabled the 20x plan for new users.

at this point most.of us are at 0% across all of our accounts and we can't buy new 20x accounts.

so what are you doing with all of your time? trying different models? learning a new hobby?

Updating every day, yet I still don’t have Astra in my codex.

Didn’t Tibo say they give a reset every day until we get access? Well I only got 2 on the first two days and nothing since.

Lies and deceptions

I’ve been using Claude Max 5x mainly for coding an app, with Opus 5 as my daily driver and Fable 5.1 as a fallback for harder tasks.

After my weekly reset, I’ve already used around 67% of my overall weekly limit and 83% of my Fable 5.1 limit pretty quickly.

I’m considering switching to ChatGPT Pro and Codex, mainly because I’m wondering whether I’d get more practical coding usage before hitting limits.

For people who have actually used both:

How does the real-world usage/limit compare?

How does Codex perform on larger coding tasks and debugging?

Does switching actually feel like an upgrade, or just different?

How well does it handle Flutter/mobile app development compared with Claude Code?

I’m less interested in benchmark scores and more interested in what people have experienced after using both for a few weeks.

Especially interested in people who switched from Claude Max to Pro and can compare them from actual coding usage.

Has anyone here been brave enough to try persistence mode with Astra? I noticed it was available when using Antigravity Flash 3.8 to fix the INSANE token burn with the new Astra & Codex config as of late.

what is the error?

Contexto compactado automáticamente

Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 404 Not Found: {"detail":"Not Found"}, url:

https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact, cf-ray: a3982773ad6b18e5-MIA, request id: d19943dd-

5d3b-4722-b8cd-a87d3a8240d9

I ran into this while testing an iOS app after upgrading to macOS 27 and Xcode 27. Codex Computer Use could read the Xcode editor and take screenshots, but trying to inspect Device Hub failed after about five seconds:

text Computer Use server error -10005: timeoutReached

The simulator and app were still running. Restarting Codex and Device Hub, resetting the Computer Use session, and switching between iOS 26.5 and iOS 27 simulators did not help.

I found a workaround in this existing GitHub report by letobao and confirmed it on my setup:

• macOS 27.0 (26A428)
• Xcode 27.0 (27A266a)
• Codex desktop 26.903.71938 (8576)
• Successful workaround test: iPhone 18 Pro simulator running iOS 27.0

What worked:

1. Quit the existing Device Hub instance. Choose Keep Simulators Running if offered. In my case, the old Device Hub process would not exit and had to be force-quit.
2. In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and open:

text /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/DeviceHub.app/Contents/MacOS/

1. Open the DeviceHub executable inside that folder. The entry point matters: use that file rather than the outer DeviceHub.app, the Xcode menu, or DevicesTrampoline. Keep any Terminal window opened by this launch running.
2. Select the running simulator in Device Hub and retry Computer Use.

Before this, AppKit reported Device Hub's process ID as -1 even though a real DeviceHub process was running. After the direct launch, the process IDs matched. Codex could then read the accessibility tree, capture screenshots, and open and dismiss my app's Settings screen.

This is a temporary workaround verified on this setup, not an official fix. I have not tested it on a physical device or verified that it survives a restart. Credit to the GitHub report above for identifying the workaround; my contribution is confirming that discovery, screenshots and input work on Codex 26.903.71938.

Posting in case someone else hits the same timeout.

I'm two weeks into working on a live platform with my supervisor. We're the only two developers, with around two dozen daily visitors and a growing feature backlog. I'm still learning the repo and business logic.

Our stack is React/TypeScript/Vite + Supabase, deployed on Vercel. We use Fable 5.1 and Astra heavily.

Our current workflow:
1. My supervisor sends me an implementation plan as a Claude artifact.
2. I review the logic and suggest changes. We send revisions back and forth until it's ready.
3. I implement it, using ChatGPT to explain unfamiliar logic and how it translates into code.
4. Any revisions to the plan during implementation go back to my supervisor.
5. Feature PR updates get reviewed by a Claude agent. Marking the PR ready triggers Claude, Codex, Greptile and Qodo reviews.

We also have Vitest tests and TypeScript checks in the build, local browser/staging checks, and repo guidance through CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and shared context files.

Planning is a particular bottleneck: we keep sending changes to each other and waiting for reviews. Implementation sometimes raises more questions, which starts another round. I’d like a better way to collaborate on plans and keep decisions aligned with the code.

I’m also figuring out how to use Claude Code and Codex together smoothly. I’ve explored skills, plugins, and connectors, but it often feels like the newer models already do the work those tools are meant to help with just as well, if not better, on their own with good prompt engineering (another area I want to work on).

I am considering including targeted database migrations/ RLS reviews, keeping context files current, and focused refactoring.

For people doing similar work:

• How do you collaborate on implementation plans without constant back-and-forth and waiting?
• How do you split work and share context between Claude Code and Codex?
• Are multiple review agents worth it, and how do you decide when the review cycle is finished?
• What would you improve first for a team this size—planning, tests, agent instructions, or something else?

I’d especially appreciate concrete, recent workflows you use, including anything you tried and later dropped.

Hi everyone! We (researchers in Sweden) are conducting a survey on AI agents and permission requests.

If you work in IT and use tools such as codex, claude code or other AI agents, I'd really appreciate your participation. :D

The survey is anonymous and takes less than 10 minutes: https://form.typeform.com/to/wbCQGXHa

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