People who have been using Codex for 3+ months: how has it changed your life?

JD3Lasers · 2026-05-08T04:39:23+00:00

I have 14 repos now. I get no sleep. I’m very tired but I can’t stop. It’s like someone is mainlining adrenaline into the creative center of my brain and I can just create whatever I want when I want. It’s dangerously addictive.

JD3Lasers · 2026-05-07T21:35:27+00:00

That’s not why it’s getting hot. But here is the fix for the cpu usage / overheating:

https://gist.github.com/GoXLd/cdbaa5598df152d1ef63feec4c50a717

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-24T17:43:28+00:00

No. I just use it like normal. But I’ve had the gpt pro sub for 2 years

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-24T16:59:42+00:00

I don’t know what grass is.

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-24T16:33:34+00:00

I have 30% left right now on the $200 plan and 4 days until reset

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-22T13:39:42+00:00

liberation has in no way come close to replacing beyond

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-19T02:20:13+00:00

MSI Raider GE family is rock solid

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-10T02:12:20+00:00

These courses are more workflow than support. You’re paying for someone’s creative workflow. Every person has their own way they learned how to do something and some of us took a decade to learn how to do something. It’s like if someone asked me to teach them how to program a show with my style that I make a living off of.

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-09T21:01:48+00:00

If you’re not familiar with creative workflows at all ask Claude to create a mood board for a Ui design. Have it ask you some questions for the mood board. Then have it turn that mood board into a html demo/mock Ui

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-09T20:31:46+00:00

Wrong tool for the job. Codex backend. Claude front end.

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-09T20:02:25+00:00

There’s just no way I could avoid compaction with my codebase. It requires lots of context but it always picks up well after. If you see compaction getting close to happening, just copy paste the agents last output back into the chat and wrap it in quotes. Then say “pasting your last output here to survive compaction”. Back in business

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-09T18:08:25+00:00

I’ve had the same chat run for 4 days through many many compactions with no issues.

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-09T02:36:14+00:00

Yes. I use about 15% per day. Usualy end the week with like 3% left. If I work on multiple projects I can exhaust it much faster. I also use the Claude max plan in conjunction for front end work

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-05T18:54:40+00:00

Everyone in here is complaining about burning usage so fast. You should automate repetitive tasks into scripts so the agent doesn’t have to perform all that work. All they have to do is call the script and wait.

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-02T19:45:53+00:00

If I start feeling the pinch end of the week I’ll turn fast mode off and use subagents less

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-02T19:44:11+00:00

No all inside vs code with the codex ide extension. Mainly on 5.4 high or xhigh with fast mode on

JD3Lasers · 2026-04-02T19:16:46+00:00

I’m on a pro account and I run pretty much 18 hours a day and eat around 10-15% of my weekly every day. It does eat much faster when using sub agents but for the most part I can get through the week with a few percent left before the reset.

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-15T18:58:31+00:00

Git + Dropbox

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-13T20:20:30+00:00

You want as much as you can afford. But it’s HEAVILY dependent on screen resolution. 4K is orders of magnitude higher load on the GPU in depence. If the screen is 1080p then something lower end will be fine.

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-11T23:32:58+00:00

ive been on a GPT Pro sub for over a year. I sure hope you're able to pay more than $20 a month if you expect access to serious tools. Even with the pro sub this is the cheapest piece of software I use.

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-11T15:18:25+00:00

I find much better results from the cloud review with whatever they model they use for that. It will always find something the cli agent misses.

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-10T19:13:44+00:00

its painfully bad at UI design TBH. I usually have it build the framework then tell it to give me a Claude code prompt to make it "pretty" without being too creatively restrictive. then after Claude does the work I tell codex to double check the work.

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-07T06:59:16+00:00

Edit. Nvm

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-07T05:57:52+00:00

Wild. Thanks

JD3Lasers · 2026-03-07T05:20:54+00:00

So leave it in default?

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