I recommend watching the whole interview, but for me, the most puzzling part was why they wanted OpenAI to stay away. He actually explains it quite reasonably (6:17 to 9:12)

After the last reset, I went from 100% to 0% within in a day and since then used about 30k in credits. My workflow is mostly Astra running Sol 6.1 subagents, both in thinking High. Anybody else experiencing similar stuff?

long story short because there was an essay here.

— sike — GPT — summarized — that — too

5.5/5.6 were actually useful work models for me in Chat. I’d dump context, structure prompts for Codex, let them reason through stuff, and because they could get pretty damn verbose, I’d just keep the conversation going and use Chat to summarize and organize the mess

6 Sol feels like they found a way to keep Chat “unlimited” while making it barely useful for serious work

colors, annotations, APPROVED, DONE, little visual stuff everywhere... cool. I just need it to hold context and structure a proper thought

even with Thinking, sometimes it feels like it starts from some instant first take and then spends the rest of the answer following that direction. if the first assumption is wrong, you start getting contradictions and have to make it re-check everything from scratch

5.6 used to actually sit there and think. and lately even that feels nerfed. stuff that could take 7–10 minutes inspecting a zip or working through something now seems allergic to going much past ~3 min

I already use Codex for the heavy lifting and I’m happy to pay for that. I just don’t want Chat itself to become the pretty colorful front-end that I can’t trust for basically anything serious, even just checking data or information

hopefully whatever 6.1-based thing eventually lands in Chat brings some of that back

You’re out of Codex and Work usage
Your rate limit resets at 5:02 AM. Upgrade or use one of your rate limit resets now.

(I swear this is literally what made me write this post out of boredom)

I gave Codex an initial prompt to make a robot folk horror short. It asked a few clarifying questions, then handled production using Jev's experimental image support. I gave it one round of notes. This is the finished 3-minute film.

I understand for heavier use like video game coding and MCPs like unreal and blender I'll still burn thru it quick but sometimes even just some basic brainstorming in a codex project chat I'll see it drop percentage left real quick. Anyone else feel this?

Something definitely changed with Sol 6.1 for me.

On Plus, ~5 minutes of normal work (mixed coding + some analysis, nothing crazy) just burned through about 40% of my 5‑hour limit. Under the same pattern a week or two ago it would have been more like ~10%.

For comparison: on Claude Pro (also $20) the same kind of workload usually eats maybe 5–10% of the daily quota, tops. I’m subscribed to both, so the contrast is pretty obvious right now.

Did you also notice that?

Edit: As some helpful people suggested, it was mostly due to context size. I got compaction on that chat as well before I was out of quota. So good to now and thanks!

This crap hasn’t changed at all since Sol 5.6.

Constant over-engineered garbage.

Anything I let it touch is just this same type of trash over and over.

It’s unbelievably bad.

“The review has now confirmed duplication: the roughly 19-minute host preparation test mostly repeats the unchanged legacy preparation route and does not exercise the new resume route. Several other host checks also replay unchanged code.

That is exactly the overlap I should have identified earlier. I'm keeping those runs held while checking how the existing gate can reuse their valid evidence and require the actual new resume boundary.”

Every single F’ing thing it builds on its own has redundant check after redundant check. This is just ONE part of a STARTUP process that it turned from a 30 second operation into something that runs for over an hour on a machine with 180 threads and 700gb of RAM.

They need to dump these garbage “cyber” models they’re using as the foundation. They absolutely suck for any practical use case.

I’m completely done. I hope they don’t give us anymore resets because that’s the only reason I haven’t cancelled my two 20x accounts.

I’ve used both Claude and Codex simultaneously since the beginning and I really, really dislike Anthropic, but Claude is like a breath of fresh air compared to this codex dumpster fire that they want us to pay 2x more for, for half the usage.

Get real. I’m out.

To go from chatbots telling us they were doing things without actually doing it… To chatbots doing things without telling us they were doing it.

Maybe I’m getting old, but things are changing just too fast…

Why?

I have 100$ sub and through couple of months I only received only two banked resets? Is it normal?

I’m speechless and slightly terrified at the same time.
For years, I’ve been trying to find a playable Mac version of Bookworm, one of my favourite childhood games. All I wanted was to download it, open it and play.

With all the reverse engineering happening lately, I thought I’d give it a shot. I found an old DMG, downloaded it and, as expected, it wouldn’t run.
So I created a folder, opened a Work chat and asked GPT to “make it work”.

Five minutes later, I was playing Bookworm on macOS 27, on Apple silicon.
Then I thought: this would make a great toilet-time game. Can I get it onto my iPhone?

Ten minutes later, I had Bookworm running natively on my iPhone, built through Xcode. Years of searching. About 15 minutes to get it running on both devices.

I’m thrilled to have my game back yet, I’m still processing everything else.

Are we cooked? Would anything be original anymore? Is everything now considered “open source”?

Just because I can't access other people's private information doesn't mean the organizations operating AI systems couldn't potentially access or analyze information across millions of users.

Probably post number xxxx, but recently the 5h window kills everything.

I'm a casual user, that's why plus should be sufficient in a month I pay for, but I can't get things done with this ridiculous 5h limit.

If I want to use it, I don't care if the weekly (got 3 resets left, never used, as weekly is still available than sufficient) gets used up.

Just get rid of this damn 5h please.

Thanks.