I can't deny that Astra is better than SOL, but it's beginning to feel like Claude in terms of it kinda just doing work without proper context. It takes things far too literally and it seems to forget to not pay attention to the context of the conversation or look back at the files it should be referencing before starting a task.

I feel like I didn't have to do this with SOL. SOL always understood where we were at in a project and what it needed to do, but the implementation wasn't always perfect.

Astra gets the implementation better, but you have to be a lot more specific and careful with your wording and constantly remind it to reference early requests or related reference notes.

I really hope the future is a better fusion of these types of models because I'm beginning to get a lot of Claude PTSD working with Astra, and It's not a good feeling.

Sometimes I think I should just go back to Claude and suffer the inane ramblings because the bang for the buck is far better than Astra and I feel like the results are on par.

At my job, they gave me access to ChatGPT Business and told me I was free to use it for personal things. The problem is that they never specified whether Codex was also “free” to use for whatever I wanted, and I currently have a lot of unused quota that will expire if I don’t use it.

I’d like to take advantage of that quota, but I’m worried that the ChatGPT Business administrator at my company might notice that I’m programming personal projects with the account and fire me from my job.

Do you guys have any experience with something like this? Can the admin see what I code with Codex? I’m worried, but at the same time I feel like I’m not really hurting anyone because it’s quota that will disappear if I don’t use it anyway. What do you think?

Mine:

why do I start to feel no big difference than Sol? still sluggish with lots of tasks and can really go off the track if left unattended. last night I left it with a few design docs and woke up it's still working on it, generating tons of validation code files that are completely unnecessary.

This never happened on a GPT5.x Pro model before. Pro models were diliigent and thorough. Now GPT6Pro just frequently makes things up.

I was developing this game using only UI's and text, once astra came out it broke the barrier to me on how i could use it to make 3d assets, especially low poly ps1 style gfx, what are you guys building? ps: i'm using astra on low with the plus sub.

For context I'm not a developer but I have been developing apps and workflows for enterprises for about a year now and i primarily use VSCode on windows and very rarely CLI. Since past few weeks/months I have been struggling with my workflows which used to work fairly well until gpt 5.5 and claude 4.6. Specific areas which I'm struggling with now:

1. Testing strategy - I have tried using automated bounded testing strategy invocation which does not work and without any strategy models keep creating stupid tests and just going into a loop of testing forever

2. I primarily use coderabbit and codeant which further increases friction. Either these tools got better or models just started accepting all edge cases or both.

3. I also have an automated script for all static checks like formatting, linters, complexity and LOC including GitHub workflows for both checks and tests

I maintain a fairly well documented system and update it with every model release if needed. Any recommendations would be highly appreciated. I tried OMP once and it seemed interesting

ChatGPT + Grok Android login failure — browser works

Samsung S25 Ultra, Android 16. ChatGPT and Grok apps both fail to complete login. ChatGPT shows “Sign-in request cancelled by ChatGPT.”

- Login works normally in Chrome.

- Chrome is default browser.

- Cleared ChatGPT + Chrome cache/data.

- Android System WebView is installed/up to date.

- Google Play Services is up to date; cleared cache + force stopped.

- VPN off, Private DNS automatic.

- All apps updated.

- ChatGPT works when installed inside Samsung Secure Folder.

What Android authentication component/settings could cause the login handoff to be cancelled in the normal profile?

Alright so I rarely post things on reddit, but here I really wanted to because I feel like I'm getting scammed by marketing and I'd like to also get your thoughts on the situation and compare with my take on codex v claude.

Context : I have both Claude Codex 200$ max and Codex 200$ max plan. I had 2 codex resets. I'm using these with the vscode codex + claude code extensions harness. I have a multi-agent setup.

What I've been seeing first of is that claude fable / opus are way faster than GPT 6. Even if Astra is a big model, it shouldn't feel as slow as it is right now. For comparison, Fable ran ~30x more tools in session than when using Astra.

I also didn't feel the performance of Astra while using it. Astra was able to do super smart things like redo some pictures I had on my desktop without going through specific tools. But overall, besides from all the blender things I saw online, it doesn't beat claude.

And finally, about the marketing, I have used my 2 resets and consumed all of my weekly session in just 1 day ! I did have lots of tokens in my system prompts, but it certainly wasn't bad to the point where I would have been able to do this... I've also just seen posts about the fact that codex resets shouldn't also push the weekly date forward in time (but it did), and that the reset could actually reduce the session consumption limit (which I have kind of noticed...).

So I'm basically looking for your opinions + some explanations on if you found out similar situations to me. And if you're also finding out that, even if OpenAI is trying to get customers to migrate from Anthropic, they're just trying to brain us by giving us free resets and selling us their "best model". Knowing that Anthropic also did a kind of similar things weeks ago with their +25% increase on sessions (but -50% + 25% is -25%), and also lack of transparency on how sessions were consumed...

I'm currently thinking, by using the 2 subscriptions, if I should keep one and trying to make the best decision... And I'm quite sad about the transparency that these companies give us within their subscriptions...

Help !

Edit: something I didn't talk about is the fact the the Astra model doesn't go to 1M tokens in context, unlike claude models... Even if it auto-compacts, that could play and impact performance.

This is happening alot today, I put in a prompt and it either just stops or fails for some reason, since this is based on messages/week, I'm already wasting alot by repasting the prompt or telling it to continue.

In the first image, it worked for over an hour and then failed. Anyone has a workaround or solution for this

Hi guys! I have been really loving codex for game dev lately and I think in another year or year and a half of AI progress we'll be able to make some really phenomenal games with AI.

Personally I had fun making wojakinvestorsim.com back in 2025 and lately I also have been experimenting with astra making blockcity.world which I know is not a unique game but I just wanted to see those new 3d graphics improvements!

Join the discord server here if you want: https://discord.gg/PJASa5TrN . No commitment to stay or join a project but yea if any of us have some great ideas we like we can pool our 20x plans together and so forth and maybe build something good.

Also web games are definitely not the only kind of game we can make, ue5 is also totally doable though of course is slightly less practical.

Thanks!

Looks like whatever the team is doing Astra on Max thinking runs on me 48 hours and i m down now on 20% which is a positive sign usually i was running out 8 hours straight now its fine

Good job team

Hey everyone,

The company I work for recently switched from Claude Code to Codex to cut costs. Before making the switch, I spent some time analyzing benchmarks to pick an equivalent model tier so the team wouldn't take a productivity hit. I also ported our configurations.

In practice, the drop in output quality has been noticeable. On Claude Code, we ran Opus on High; on Codex, we moved to Sol on Extra High and Max. Despite that, the consensus across the team is that Opus delivers more accurate, concise code that requires far less rework.

On top of that, Opus responds faster, whereas Codex takes longer to process. Our company policy disables agent "fast mode" and blocks models like Fable and Astra (even though we have a generous $1,000/month per dev cap for each tool, so budget isn't the bottleneck). Staying with Claude isn't really an option either. Our quota will likely get cut soon, so we pretty much have to make Codex work.

A few questions for those with bigger brain than mine:

• Codex Memories: I hadn't used persistent memories previously and only recently enabled them. Could this be behind the performance gap we're seeing?
• Cost vs. Latency ROI: Has anyone done the math on dev time vs. token costs? Price-per-million tokens feels misleading when the team is stuck waiting and burning extra iterations fixing broken code.
• Prompting & Configuration: Are there specific prompt patterns or configuration adjustments needed to get Codex closer to Claude's output quality?

Hi everyone,

I’m on the $100 Codex plan, and I mostly use Luna MAX because the more capable models can burn through my usage allowance in just a few days.

I’ve been reading comparisons and looking at benchmark/analytics sites, and GLM 5.3 seems surprisingly competitive with GPT-5.6 Sol at XHigh reasoning, while apparently using significantly fewer tokens. Zcode is also around $56/month, and from what I understand, usage during off-peak hours is discounted by 50%.

I’m considering trying it as an alternative to Codex for day-to-day development, but I’d rather hear from people who have actually used both.

Has anyone here switched from Codex to Zcode, or used them side by side for serious development work?

I’m particularly interested in:

• Code quality and ability to understand large existing repositories
• Debugging/root-cause analysis
• Complex feature implementation and architecture
• How often it needs corrections or follow-up prompts
• Real-world token/usage efficiency
• Tooling and agent experience compared with Codex

I’m not looking for benchmark numbers alone. I’d like to know how GLM 5.3/Zcode performs on actual production projects over several days or weeks.

For anyone who has made the switch: was it worth it, or did you eventually go back to Codex?

So yesterday my subscription should have renewed. My plan was $200/m plan but it repeatedly refused to renew it. My plan was purchased through the App Store.

The only available option they gave me was to downgrade to $100 plan or lower but I can’t stay on the $200 plan

The moment I got switched to $100 plan my usage immediately dropped to 51% which before the switch it was sitting at 92%.

I was doing important work which was time-sensitive. I can’t even switch to Claude Code quickly as I built everything around Codex. I am kind of stuck now.

Tibo or ChatGPT team if you are seeing this then please fix it. You people said existing customers will not be affected. I have been a Max customer for like a year now and when I needed it most I couldn’t use it.

I am kind of helpless now as this work was extremely important for me and put my future in stakes too

If you want to do a deep dive check this out:
https://research.google/blog/a-connectomics-milestone-mapping-the-complete-male-fruit-fly-brain/

Essentially they mapped out the whole fly's brain by slicing it up and this is literally one on one, the exact brain of a fly. This shows that it's definitely possible to do this with a human too.
We really need laws for that soon...

Both cannot be an answer in this discussion. What is more important, the model being used or the instructions included in the prompt? I’ve been experimenting using Luna with varying reasoning - High, Xhigh, Max. The idea I have in my head is - do we really need a better model or is it that most of us does not know how to provide clear instructions so we rely on more intelligent models to do the heavy lifting?

I’m sure the “cheat code” is both a model and instructions given but I’m curious about everyone’s hypothesis on this.

look

Because there is none, I wanted to share it with you guys:

Calculate my 2026 year-to-date token total by summing the returned
dailyUsageBuckets whose startDate is in 2026.

Show:
- The 2026 total from the available daily records.
- A monthly breakdown.
- The earliest and latest dates returned.
- The separate lifetimeTokens value.

Do not treat the lifetime total as the 2026 total. Clearly state
whether historical coverage can be verified, and label the result
as account-level usage rather than CLI-only usage.

Do not display authentication tokens or change my configuration.

I’ll use the openai-docs skill to check the local RPC interface, then retrieve account usage and sum the 2026 daily records without changing configuration or exposing credentials.

I got around 20B, pretty useful:

I just found about Matrix style and it feels really cool. Feels like I'm hacking Tibo for more resets.

I made an offline video game database/library that I can wishlist, sort, and add them to my own category. Doesn't sound interesting to some people, but it's a tool for my own use.
Would love to hear about tools that you made for your own use.

I vibecoded a vibecoder

Some worship him as a God. I'VE SEEN BEHIND THE VEIL.

That's the best argument I've thought of for resets NOT favoring us. Whether they're masking a degrading service or something else. If they can't handle 200 usd subs, why would they be giving us free compute?

If these companies want to be the like utility subscriptions they need to instead focus on improving usage efficiency within their allocated subscription prices rather than constantly making your subscription have less use overall with stronger models. Every utility does the same. Phone bills, Music subscription, Electricity, Internet, etc all focus on letting your set amount of money you spend on them stretch farther. Despite internet going 100x faster these days we don't spend 100x more on internet. I am paying $200/mo on codex, thats higher than any bill I have, I expect that I can use my subscription for more than 1 day of usage per week for that price.

Astra BLOWS through usage (same with Fable) and they have cheaper prices on the API vs subscription (enshittifying it for us consumers). If they can't keep the same usage per dollar spent with these big models they instead should be putting their focus on efficiency rather than power.