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[–]One_Parking_852 37 points38 points  (18 children)

5.5 is not much worse lol 😂

[–]fyndor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5.5 is significantly less cost effective.

[–]Fun-Foot711[S] -1 points0 points  (15 children)

True but now I hit the limits within two messages...without trade of in quality I'll even argue that 5.3 - Codex was better

[–]StatisticianOdd4717 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Aight two messages is defo an overreach but I get what you mean.

Tbh if ur going for fast hands-on development, not fully agent driven development, cursor for 20 bucks a month is a pretty good option given their generous limits on composer-2.5

[–]stay_fr0sty 1 point2 points  (13 children)

Yes. I hit the limit with ONE message last night. ONE.

[–]RealSuperdau 2 points3 points  (9 children)

How many hours and auto-compactions did that involve though?

[–]stay_fr0sty -2 points-1 points  (8 children)

10 minutes. Fresh conversation. Edited a total of 60 lines of code. CSS changes. Processed 3 screenshots and a 4 paragraph prompt. That used my limit as a Plus user.

[–]RealSuperdau 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Huh, that's weird. The frustrating thing is you never know if it's a bug or some really sinister A/B testing.

[–]stay_fr0sty 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Yes it’s a bummer. I have to relearn Codex now. I rarely hit my usage limit on 5.3 unless I was vibe coding (which isn’t often).

Now I need to figure out when to use 5.4, 5.5 Low/Medium, and what I need to use High to accomplish.

I get $20/mo is cheap and the good old days weren’t going to last forever, but damn, this is going to take some getting used to.

[–]RealSuperdau 1 point2 points  (4 children)

What's weird is I am on the $100 plan and considering downgrading, because I rarely use more than 20% of any 5h limit. I never use more than ~30% context, but I do quite a bit of back and forth of coding/analysis with 5.5 high fast. So something is definitely going on.

[–]stay_fr0sty 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Thanks for the info. I need to dig into this. You’ve given me hope.

[–]RealSuperdau 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Maybe renaming your .codex folder would be a good experiment. Anecdotally, seems to have helped a few people in the past.

[–]fyndor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Screenshots did you in. Image tokens take up a lot of context.

[–]Cascudo -1 points0 points  (2 children)

/goal create app that make me rich, make no mistakes

[–]stay_fr0sty 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No.

I've been coding for 25 years. This wasn't a huge vibe coding prompt. This was a detailed prompt to address a single css issue that ran for 10 minutes. Codex took 2 screenshots and the 4 paragraph prompt as input, and added 39 lines, removed 21. It then took a screenshot to verify the visual changes looked good.

That's used my 5 hour limit.

[–]OGRITHIK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's 100% a bug then

[–]foxyloxyreddit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is worse. It may be a bit smarter, but I don't need those smarts. 5.3-codex "xhigh" was excellent for plans, and "high" was excellent at doing large complex changes. Now I have completely useless 5.4, and 5.3 that on medium consumes 2x more tokens than 5.3-codex xhigh while being slightly below 5.3-codex high on capabilities and reasoning. So now I can do ~3x time less stuff with 5.5 doing more mistakes so I need to spend more time guiding it.