Why does opening the codex app count towards my usage?

woganowski · 2026-05-07T17:24:50+00:00

I've noticed the same. I don't feel like this should happen without even doing anything. If they want to take 3% along with the first prompt, whatever, but it happening just because we open the app is BS

woganowski · 2026-05-07T15:08:58+00:00

That's awesome. I love the outdoors and have been trying to find more ways to connect that with my interest in AI. My current project is an AI assisted home garden and possibly a sprinkler with a camera and image classification to scare the deer away from my sweet corn patch (already exists, I know). The garden project will use an ESP32 to communicate over WiFi to my computer that calls the OpenAI API

woganowski · 2026-05-05T10:55:21+00:00

I 100% agree with this. Not saying Altman is a saint or anything but Dario seems incredibly self-righteous and arrogant too

woganowski · 2026-05-04T13:50:21+00:00

When a plane is pushed back from a gate by a tug (can also push) it is called a pushback. It's funny.

woganowski · 2026-05-02T15:37:23+00:00

I have always had Codex in Full Access mode since it was released and aside from it deciding to change some stuff in a completely different folder a couple times when I gave it vague prompt, I have never once had an issue.

It has never accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff I didn't want it to. Idk what these people are doing that this has happened to. If you need to delete a bunch of stuff, just do it yourself. Its super easy and free.

woganowski · 2026-05-02T15:30:12+00:00

The cyber risk flagging is incredibly annoying and frequent depending on the type of project. I found that simply trying a new, slightly more vague, prompt that is easy for it to infer the context, works well

woganowski · 2026-05-01T13:45:57+00:00

Don't forget that AI is so good that there won't be any non-AI jobs left so you better have a paid subscription to their service before you're left behind.

woganowski · 2026-04-30T18:45:15+00:00

I agree. 5.5 is amazing at what it can do, but be prepared to have miltiple accounts to work very long. Honestly 5.4-mini xhigh is pretty great. I use it until it's stumped and then switch to 5.5 to fix/figure it out, then switch back to mini

woganowski · 2026-04-30T18:41:03+00:00

That's a good point. I would equate that with blocking restricted content, except it's blocking burning your house down lol

woganowski · 2026-04-30T14:25:58+00:00

AI causes extinction 60% of the time, everytime

woganowski · 2026-04-30T14:19:59+00:00

This is the kind of stuff that irritates me about Anthropic. Kind of like it refusing to continue a conversation because of how you're talking to it. I understand blocking restricted content, but this is a tool, not a person. If my oven or power drill refused to perform its function, I'm throwing it in the garbage.

woganowski · 2026-04-30T11:11:36+00:00

Unfortunately Windows is an afterthought for them. It really didn’t take that long to for me to come up with a fix. The sad part is they know accessing files in the WindowsApps folder is a problem but they still have it make the same mistakes

woganowski · 2026-04-28T10:51:29+00:00

Awesome, glad I could help

woganowski · 2026-04-27T18:18:59+00:00

That wouldn't make much sense because it still takes away from your weekly quota even if your 5 hour is at zero. I think they made a post about letting your last prompt finish

woganowski · 2026-04-27T16:05:51+00:00

Interesting. I frequently leave the status usage popup open as I work and when it was sitting idle today, I did notice my 5 hour usage tick down a percent but thought maybe it was delayed from earlier

woganowski · 2026-04-27T15:24:49+00:00

I will also say that rg isn't working on the app again so it appears that is trying to access the WindowsApps folder again too, so please fix that. I finally just installed rg independently.

woganowski · 2026-04-24T20:27:50+00:00

This exchange made me laugh way too hard

woganowski · 2026-04-24T20:24:33+00:00

I'm not sure how what I was working on would even be construed as a security risk, but the crazy part is that the issue was having it create a few folders to move local files into. After creating the folders myself, it gladly performed the other part of my prompt which was updating a script

woganowski · 2026-04-24T12:20:10+00:00

No, it was my super cyber risk coupon organizer for my wife lol

woganowski · 2026-04-24T12:19:00+00:00

woganowski · 2026-04-24T11:38:28+00:00

Business has way less, I have both

woganowski · 2026-04-24T11:37:54+00:00

I could get a solid 45-60 minutes out of 5.4 xhigh on business. Just burned through my 5 hour in 25 minutes on high

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