#codex-discussions

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bright swift
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its bad, its api pricing. just daisy chain pro 20x accounts bro

unreal parcel
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if 5.6 really comes out that would be crazy. poor anthropic

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the problem with pro subscription is the small context size

bright swift
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huh?

unreal parcel
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huh?

brittle stratus
bright swift
unreal parcel
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for GPT 5.5

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subscription gives you 400K - 128K context size, 1M is only for API

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272K is so easy to hit doing some stuff like reviewing a commit range

bright swift
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oh yea, but i'm happy with the autocompact in codex, context size isnt an issue

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gpt pro in chatgpt has 1M pretty sure

lost drum
turbid axle
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they are really squeezing tokens huh. running out of tokens way faster this week as compared to last week... ๐Ÿ™

unreal parcel
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I tried a few times letting the auto-compact work it out. the review with compacting ended up compacting like 4-5 times and barely found any problems. rerunning with multiple agents instead gave like 5x more results. It's really not that great

brittle stratus
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how do you guys deplete a 20x acc, what do you do? do you run it overnight and use /goal constantly?

unreal parcel
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I can't even dip below 50% anymore, even using Fast lol

turbid axle
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I could run /goal all day and it would eat about 10% of my weekly. now it eats 30% and the day is not even over

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/sadface

lost drum
bright swift
cedar parcel
unreal parcel
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running models for 24/7 is nuts

lost drum
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done it for 1 month straight

turbid axle
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you mean, not running 24/7 is nuts

cedar parcel
lost drum
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I need 1 more month tho

unreal parcel
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I guess it more drives itself into slopville

bright swift
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:((

cedar parcel
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No this runs in enterprise environments but it's a whole process and does involve humans in the final stages

bright swift
unreal parcel
bright swift
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burning through a 20x in 1,5 days now, basically 5h limits are becoming a problem

cedar parcel
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I have more

turbid axle
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I actually hit my 5hour on my 200pro just now, I've never had this before, ever.

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we are being squeezed hard

cedar parcel
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But at 400 you can run a business week full on with multiple projects

lost drum
turbid axle
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AI becoming more and more paytowin

bright swift
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even with the squeeze the value is ridiculous

unreal parcel
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Yea OpenAI, stop providing us the value of 10 engineers for $200 a month

turbid axle
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its still good yes, but this is not a good direction, it should become cheaper, not more and more expensive

bright swift
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i mean it sucks if you are starting out now. but if you have a business already or good job, its crazy

unreal parcel
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maybe the people running the model 24/7 are the ones making it more expensive for everyone else lol

cedar parcel
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That said we have to probably rever about 200 commits of total clown code now that whatever DevOps idea they decided to try on Friday is coming apart

cedar parcel
brittle stratus
lost drum
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but not heavy tasks as before

bright swift
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i'm actually bottle necked by planning right now

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need more prompts

brittle stratus
brittle stratus
brittle stratus
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in other words, say a thing has 20 steps, gotta make sure all 20 are properly automated

bright swift
# brittle stratus ah, well, I still haven't fully automated my pushes and merges, and I don't yet ...

what i built is basically a "local MR" workflow. i run lints, tests, etc the usual stuff on git pre-commit. then rebase, then on pre-push i run a codex review loop until all findings are fixed, each in a separate commit. so this local commit stack + review loop basically acts like an autonomous MR. i really like it. its a token incinerator though. beyond that i use pre/post tool use hooks in code for fast feedback loops, so lints, formatting, etc

turbid axle
cedar parcel
# brittle stratus do you have a product out or do you work in a company?

In a company, client projects and internal projects. It runs everything. For new projects it usually builds for a few days and then it takes a backend dev and front end Dev both a week to get it to be perfect. And then there's about a day and a half of autonomous pen, UI, API, and performance testing. But no matter how complex, this is consistently working.

brittle stratus
bright swift
# lost drum wdm?

basically refining the high level things i want to do. the implementation is so fast that i cant keep up with new goal prompts ๐Ÿ˜„

brittle stratus
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and I think most people have or will have this issue

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Need more agents, not more prompts I'd say

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and abstract more and more

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eventually you'll be so abstracted you will have freed yourself all dev work, unfortunately

lost drum
bright swift
lost drum
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I know I also had him update the goals based on what he discovered while executing actions from goals

bright swift
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i work alone, so i dont have anyone feeding me tickets or similar

brittle stratus
bright swift
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i tried to get gpt to do the grill-me questions but only ask me the really high impact ones and make sensible default decisions for less important stuff, but not working as i'd like it to yet

lost drum
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It works for me but idk how so I cant help sadly

bright swift
brittle stratus
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sounds beginner-like what I said above, but sometimes the simplest point of view is the best one
i get bogged down by all the things I have to do, as I work solo like you. Good organization is critical for me

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and yes, automate everything instead of leaving it for later. Learned that one in the past few weeks

bright swift
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the good old building the meta system trap ๐Ÿ˜„

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so tempting to go down the automation rabbit role too far

brittle stratus
bright swift
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yea absolutely agree

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for me the trap is spending more time on this than on my actual business

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its fun working on these systems and improvements

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real life factorio

brittle stratus
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I only do it to keep moving forward and actually do the things that bring value. I don't do it for fun, seriously

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I like how much I cann do, but it's become very difficult to juggle all these areas I'm doing, especially things I've never done in my life

brittle stratus
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I hate spamming people, but I've worked for a leadgen company, so I had to take advantage of that

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interested to hear your experiences, as you mentioned you're solo building? @bright swift

boreal holly
# bright swift for me the trap is spending more time on this than on my actual business

Idk, on one hand it takes time, on the other hand you learn valuable lessons. There is value in trying.

I rebuilt my rear axle twice. The first time I got RTV silicon in one of my wheel bearings and found out the hard way you can't really clean that stuff out. Rebuilt the second time with all new bearings, still going strong after 14k miles.

Sucks having to keep doing the same repair over and over, but now I have all the tools to do a rear axle rebuild and experience to go with it.

Build the harness. Do it for learning and potentially high rewards!

bright swift
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so funnily in the last few months i mostly worked on greenfield new idea type stuff. now i'm applying some of the stuff i learned in the time to the existing business.

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mostly painful unfun stuff right now to get it to a more "AI first" point with better integrations etc. migrating gitlab -> github, migrating off AWS, big refactorings ๐Ÿ˜„

brittle stratus
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I suppose we shouldn't turn this into this kinda of talk, as it's supposed to be about codex

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so let me mention the word 'codex' once more ๐Ÿ˜„

bright swift
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im building it all with codex so... ๐Ÿ˜„

brittle stratus
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I am unfortunately forced to find all possible means to get traction, from social media to SEO (have some experience in this) to whatever is necessary

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hopefully something clicks

bright swift
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funny thing about that is that i just saw chatgpt + american express now has some kind of partnership. maybe i can spend the amex points i get for ads payments on codex credits. infinite codex glitch

brittle stratus
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and given how little experience I have being my first ever SaaS product, I'm bound to make all kinds of mistakes ๐Ÿ˜„

uneven forum
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I am trying to multi select various elements with annotation mode and it doesnt seem to be working by holding shift.

I swear i did this before (i think haha) and when i read up on it, i see docs saying i should be able to select multi things with annotation mode while holding shift and selecting. but this does not work. it will only allow me to select one item. And I am not meaning selecting by dragging either. I need to select elements in various parts of a page that a drag selection would not work with.

Anyone else with this issue, or have any solves? or is it just me imaging something?

Thank you in advance.

deft vale
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Does anyone know why they removed the slides and spreadsheets plugins from Codex? I keep seeing people with them installed, but they don't show up in my marketplace.

uneven forum
deft vale
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Oh

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I'm from Spain, could it be restricted due to EU regulations?

heavy rapids
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anybody manage to get Hermes to work with codex?

deft vale
# uneven forum weird. I just checked and they are there for me

It's not just these extensions. I see people using skills and plugins from the marketplace that don't even show up for me to install.

Even if I go to GitHub to look for the "Slides" skill, I get a 404 error.
I figured I wouldn't be able to see a lot of them because they might not be available in the European Union, but it doesn't make sense that I can't see the spreadsheets or slides plugins.

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If anyone here is also from the EU, I would appreciate it if they could check if they can see these plugins.

bright swift
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did you ask codex to debug it

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most likely some stale cache setting or whatever

deft vale
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I'm going to give it a try, thanks

turbid axle
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wow. almost at 50% token use now. thats a 40% increase over last weeks running cost for 1 day with the exact same agent/prompt

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I guess my /goal goals are dead now?

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just me noticing this extreme decrease in usable tokens for sub?

torpid trout
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They are all here

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No chance I can use them - stuck on 97% weekly since yesterday morning, that is a 3000 lines of code wp plugin later, inclusive iterations, plus two paralell tasks running basically nonstop. the 3k line thing was all done with 5.5 xhigh, the others on high.
It just wont go down

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ca 12 hours straight of codex producing and chewing stuff. I do not run it overnight... but still. Sum tin wong

turbid axle
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at this rate I will run out of tokens in just 2 days. ill have to buy a new 200pro account every 2 days now? just a single agent running 5.5medium regular. only last week I could run the thing all week and still code on the side.

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wack

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was even running it at night last week. no chance I can do that now

torpid trout
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Key differences I think:

  • I do not run native subagents. It is disabled
  • I do not use skills, agents, or the likes
  • All over codex app server in custom tool
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And, yes, this is a pro account 200 bucks. But I am seriously thinking of downgrading it, because I literally can't spend all tokens as hard I try
The only reason I kept it for now was no other option, but now there is the 100usd plan...

turbid axle
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chatgpt is the agent btw..

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something seems off

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literally the same prompt, same project, same model, same everything. and yet what worked for the whole week, night included with tokens to spare, now can't manage 2 days

torpid trout
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Fairly sure that load balancer of theirs is the cause
Its not a first and wont be a last

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I use tokens, they get billed to you, that kind of issue.

turbid axle
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something funky for sure. this is extreme

bright swift
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i burned through 1,5x pro 20x weekly limits since the manual reset

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guess this is the week when i set up a 3rd ๐Ÿ˜„

turbid axle
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2kpro the new meta?

bright swift
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yes please

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tibo tweeted about it

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i think they are considering 1k+ accounts

boreal holly
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Weird, I've had no issues

turbid axle
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seems like some people have what feels like endless tokens, and others have to settle for scraps

boreal holly
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I definitely don't have endless tokens, but very deterministic usage

turbid axle
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maybe is based on how much love you post on x for oai

bright swift
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definitely ways to be more efficient

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but tokenmaxxing is more fun

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number go up

turbid axle
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thing that makes this so iffy is that its the exact same prompt and all that

boreal holly
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Yeah, I try to offer advice on more efficient usage. A lot of it falls on deaf ears tho

trim rapids
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I haven't personally seen any evidence of it being broken currently but it has definitely been broken previously within the last couple months

turbid axle
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effecient or not. the same process should not eat 5x more one week to the next

boreal holly
bright swift
turbid axle
torpid trout
boreal holly
# bright swift you mean because of rewriting caches?

It could be literally anything. Like if you have unified_exec=true enabled, they might've updated how that works, so when the agent wakes up every 5 seconds to check on background terminals it consumes the entire command output + new outputs instead of just new outputs. Totally plausible, and would n^2 the input token usage

torpid trout
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There is a github ticket about it where he explicitly said that, and if it happens once, it is almost sure to happen twice

turbid axle
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I mean, anything can be a cause. there is a sea of variables at play here

boreal holly
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Right, and that's the bummer about updating everything immediately

bright swift
trim rapids
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a couple months ago the accounting was briefly so messed up that they gave me a whole extra manual reset after I posted my user id and some evidence of breakage in a bug report on github

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weirdness definitely happens

boreal holly
bright swift
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thats for the background commands right

torpid trout
boreal holly
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The idea behind unified_exec is amazing, but in practice, the way they implemented it has historically been bad

bright swift
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i will investigate and potentially tokenmaxx less

boreal holly
trim rapids
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it was highly disappointing

boreal holly
bright swift
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thx i'll follow that issue. i assume you implemented a solution in your fork?

boreal holly
trim rapids
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I've had some success just telling the agent how often to poll, like I can't say for sure that it works but if I send a followup message it definitely doesn't get processed until after the specified delay

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problems seem to arise if I tell it to only poll every several minutes and it happens to hit a backend compaction point while waiting though, where it errors out with a message about my oauth token being revoked, deletes my auth.json and forces me to do the whole 2fa song and dance again

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it's highly suboptimal

boreal holly
# trim rapids I've had some success just telling the agent how often to poll, like I can't say...

That was just 1 specific example. A long time ago before they switched to token-based quota, responses_websockets used to completely wreck the quota because they were doing "per-message" quotas, and with HTTP over SSE they considered a single HTTP request 1 message, but with websockets you have this persistent connection, so they considered every event a message lol or something like that. And I'm pretty sure they default enabled it at one point.

They could've also made memories=true default enabled, or made it so skill headers get inserted into each and every tool call mid-turn, or any number of quota eating changes. I think when folks say "Today I burn insane tokens doing the same prompt I did yesterday", first suspect is software update

vernal palm
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Hey, Iโ€™m a developer working mostly on AI-powered web apps and automation tools.
Recently Iโ€™ve been building internal chat assistants, workflow automation systems, and dashboards that help teams manage and understand their data more easily.
Curious to meet others working on similar projects or experimenting with AI tools

torpid trout
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Sometimes I just dont get codex or better said, llm models
I achieved a given goal safely and easily with 53 lines of code crafted by hand.
I asked gpt to write code based on that working example, but with a test suite around it, and trying to optimise the working example in case he can find a better way to do it

10+ files with each 50+ lines of source code (no tests included in these numbers) later, the goal is not achieved, at iteration 5 meanwhile (iteration 6 going now with the command to "fully reset and start anew")
At the same time it can poop out 3000 line of code apps that work in one shot and are really complex in the features.

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Its weird. Like, as others said, sometimes the thing just feels dumber than a glass of water that accidentally can print toothbrushes out of thin air

steady vigil
narrow vine
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guys how and where to use codex's "/goal"?

steady vigil
torpid trout
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lol

boreal holly
torpid trout
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specially given it has a working example, where the (admitted) extreme edge case of this project is well documented and implemented
That is what it is porbably tripping it off because it is not "by the books". yet that is also explictily elaborated in the plan lol

Its like it goes circles hunting its own tail when it has too much guidance, kind of

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I might just tell it "optimise this", actually, lol

torpid trout
boreal holly
torpid trout
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append duh

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and introduce a typo, becuase.

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oooooh nice, a phisicyan appeared!

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aaaand gone ๐Ÿคฃ not even enough time to get their username ๐Ÿ˜ข

rocky fog
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have fun with it
there are tens or hundreds of these coming to this discord per day
but they get insta deleted here (he got a 3 day timeout, but usually these get removed/banned later)

discord in general has extreme amount of scammers/bots and it only seems to be increasing, especially lately

some might also just be hacked accounts, as they are older

indigo robin
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can you force a context compaction ?

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my context window keeps compacting but its not returing to zero tokens after

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not sure why

torpid trout
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Whats weird - if you use project_doc_fallback_filenames, then agent says:

 Instructions came from your first message in this conversation, not from a file currently present in the repo.

  You provided them inline under:

  # AGENTS.md instructions for /path/to/project

  <INSTRUCTIONS>
  ...
  </INSTRUCTIONS>

  I then checked the filesystem and found no AGENTS.md inside this repo. The only AGENTS.md found nearby was outside this project:

  ../../AGENTS.md

  So for this repo, the instructions are active because you supplied them in the chat context, but they are not currently stored as path/to/project/AGENTS.md.

yet a file is located in cwd, just not default name, instead, a project_doc_fallback_filenames overwritten one
I observed it does not follow that as nicely as AGENTS.md, which is why I got curios

torpid trout
indigo robin
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wowzers

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sweet

torpid trout
indigo robin
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mmm

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i see

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@hard drum

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quick question

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buying 20$ in credits vs making another codex account ? what happens to the reset cycle if you buy credits ? will it reset , would it be wiser to make another account ?

rocky fog
indigo robin
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if i bought 20$ in credits

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will my weekly usage reset ?

rocky fog
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they will start to be used when you reach 0%
nothing will change with your reset date

indigo robin
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then id be able to use codex after its hit zero

rocky fog
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yes with the credits

indigo robin
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and what about my daily limit it can goto zero too and id still be able to use it

rocky fog
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yes, same

indigo robin
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and itd use my credits instead

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ah

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i see

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you created the empires mod ?

rocky fog
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thats pretty much the only way you can use credits as far as I know
when usage reaches 0% the credits will then be automatically used
until your next reset

indigo robin
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mm i see

rocky fog
lean lark
lean lark
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I was just over in #openai-chatter - just as I remembered, it's home for kids and newcomers and conspiracy people, for FUD, crying, misinformation, and a hint at the world of people who use the tech.
This channel gets like that sometimes.
I wish there were channels for verified adults and those who have a handle on this stuff. ๐Ÿ˜ž

pliant depot
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Hi everybody ! Do you also have the impression that when talking about limits, new 100$ pro plan is the same as the old plus plan ?

I would like to use gpt 5.5 only on a large repository. Should I really buy the 200$ one ? ๐Ÿฅบ

lost drum
lean lark
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The question can't be answered properly in a forum without a lot of info. The decision is based on your usage.
Try Plus. If you run out of tokens, consider a couple options:

  1. Monitor your token usage:
  • Are your prompts good?
  • Are your AGENTS.md and Skills carefully crafted and not contradictory?
  • Can you use Standard speed or do you truly need Fast?
  • Are you switching models and reasoning ability based on the task?
  • Are you watching the CoT and remedying issues that the model encounters?
  • Is your code documented so that the assistant doesn't need to read the entire workspace to understand it?
  1. If you've done all that and you know you're already using tokens effectively, maybe you do need a higher plan.

  2. If you can cost-justify a higher plan as a business expense that is actually related to profit and loss, then yes, maybe a higher plan is the next step. If you are not earning money with the tooling yet, then no, maybe spending more money isn't the right answer yet.

If you haven't come up with some metrics that signal a higher plan is well-justified, you're just throwing money at something you don't understand. That's a different kind of problem that no one in a public forum can help with.

bright swift
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lol reset again?

lean lark
bright swift
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im back to 100% ahahah

solid lake
bright swift
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was just about to buy a 3rd because 2 subs emptied

cyan gyro
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hahaha awesome

bright swift
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maybe they actually fixed sth this time because it really seemed to drain fast

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but ill take it ๐Ÿ˜„

cyan gyro
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meanwhile google is doing their best to re-invent glasses...again...

orchid echo
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RESET???

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LFG

karmic gulch
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Amazing stuff,glad I went turbo and used alot of usage, betting on anothe reset ๐Ÿ˜Ž

lean lark
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Hey @torpid trout if https://bitsforfree.com/ really is focused on "bits for free" then maybe the meme on optimization isn't a good fit?

orchid echo
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i just wish Codex would copy Claude's /copy functionality

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Codex's /copy is useless

bright swift
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what does it do

torpid trout
# lean lark

the domain was just some squatted thing I bought years ago I had lying around lol

lean lark
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I was just looking again and it seems it needs to be general purpose. If limited to our little friend Homo Reseticus, there wouldn't be much there. What do you think about vibing a categories mechanism?

solid lake
orchid echo
# bright swift what does it do

Claude's /copy? its smart, lets you be able copy certain sections, so for example you can easily copy strictly only a command without all the fluff and backticks

bright swift
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oh yea thats nice

lean lark
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Lots of AR/glasses on the market now, extreme quality/price differences, very chaotic.

bright swift
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always so dramatic lol

torpid trout
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Right now it accepts any type of content really, while it is AI moderated, that is only used to avoid profanity and stuff like that (it then puts it into an admin queue for me to review)

outer trail
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I just updated codex CLI and the /fast slash command disappeared?

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any ideas?

karmic gulch
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Codex for mobile is not living up to excpectations... so buggy... going back to Omnara, thats one perfect hidden gem. Anyone else got bugs with codex on mobile?

native vigil
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wow codex became much better after reset again!

cyan gyro
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how do you know?

lean lark
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Hmmm, so if the image is already being processed by AI then it can also categorize. That's good enough. I see moderation.js in the code. I'll clone and see what I can do as time permits (rarely does). Best to ya!

torpid trout
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what the hell why is my codex resetted again

native vigil
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its just fixing all the broken prs it did over the last days xD

torpid trout
bright swift
torpid trout
lean lark
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good call, Beda

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Hmmm, you just invented something (again).
Dynamic websites that visitors can vibe/configure. The site uses their preferences when they visit. Config is stored in local storage. Needs to be carefully considered...
Call it a "BedaSite" ๐Ÿ˜†

torpid trout
# lean lark Hmmm, you just invented something (again). Dynamic websites that visitors can vi...

Yea, I mean, does it surprise no one that we still think in terms of "settings", "configurations", "apps" and so on?
The future has no website, no OS, no app, no settings
It has an interface with an AI, and you tell it what you need, and it makes it for you, pulling from a pool of data
Basically facebook may keep existing, as a json blob somewhere, or whatever. You show it to yourself the way you want, where you want, when you want
The entire OS is a "today I need to communicate with another human, tell them this:..." and the ai decides whatever the best way is, it may or may not create a mail client for that, or god knows, something better

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Who cares if the user wants dark or bright mode, maybe someone wants rainbow mode... or whatever else, read diagonally or so.

cedar skiff
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nice to wake up an see a reset

lean lark
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I try to share concepts like that with my wife. She kinda doesn't get it. She's a "user/consumer".
Dude, let's get married! ๐Ÿคฃ

cedar skiff
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i was at about 35%

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i gave 30 tasks to codex, it always does this ๐Ÿคฃ

torpid trout
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not a tomorrow thing of course.. but porbably a soon-thing

lean lark
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we're quickly moving toward locally hosted models so personal apps will certainly be common, very soon.

torpid trout
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actually, nothing has that in part

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they basically allow you to create your own phone apps, directly on the phone

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not sure how, i think it is some remote call to their models, I doubt a local phone-model can do something like it, but then... phones are incredibly powerful nowadays, so given a strong harness probably it could do some limited stuff already

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nothing as in the brand

lean lark
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I have Gemma4 on my Android. And I have an APK generator. I just need to wire up the harness to create AI apps for the phone. Never enough time...

sharp yew
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chiefs for the past couple of days am i the only one that burns through quota as if im using opus instead of gpt?

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im cooked already capybarathink

rocky fog
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openai making us all work hard with these resets ๐Ÿ˜„

lean lark
torpid trout
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hope it hurts not ๐Ÿคฃ

tiny laurel
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Iโ€™m curious whether Codex can be used with API keys from other models, like Gemini. Iโ€™ve really enjoyed Codex so far, especially the features, skills, and built-in tools, and Iโ€™m wondering if a similar setup or workflow would be possible using the Gemini API.

lean lark
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it can

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Many people in public are happy about using other models with codex.

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L:ook around for how-to info.

tiny laurel
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I've been doing some diggin and see there are framworks like liteLLM that can help with that, just wondering if anyone here knows if there is a builtin tool or we do need a workaround like litellm

lean lark
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I don't know but I can tell you that many people outside of this forum have already published that kind of information in articles, blogs, etc. I personally haven't had the time/desire to read on that specific topic yet.

boreal holly
tiny laurel
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gotcha, will definitely try that out

lean lark
karmic gulch
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been experimenting with claude dispatch taking controll of my mac mini and running my codex projects last 8 hours, just amazing. I check in every now and then, and claude and codex have their own bbq party and getting those steaks medium rare. Were about to cancel my claude sub, but now tht I truly can have opus be "me" ill keep it, and let them cook together

anyone else doing this flow?

lean lark
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Peeps are doing this with the codex tooling for remote control, or the app-server. I saw something published by staff yesterday that their explicit goal is to allow different systems to communicate and execute just like that.
Oh, we're in for a world of hurt. ๐Ÿ™‚

sharp yew
lean lark
#

Was only one today.

#

Ref #announcements "OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity" : That's what I was talking about yesterday when I mentioned dedicating servers for specific usage.

solid lake
#

About to get stiffed

tidal pivot
#

Anyone else feel like gpt 5.5 now runs up your 5h limit very quickly ?

torpid trout
sharp yew
lean lark
#

No announcements were made by Tibo - it's possible your account hasn't been credited yet. Or yea, maybe SamA doesn't like you.

sharp yew
#

i wouldnt either if i was in his place

#

i troll him with each and every occasion

boreal holly
#

I freaking love it dude. The worst thing ever is when they redesign a page and rip out real existing functionality. "Make no mistakes" is real now

lean lark
#

Except that you're working with Twilio, one of my favorite companies, I don't understand what's happening there. Are you saying it caught and corrected a mistake because of the directive to "Make no misteaks"? ๐Ÿ˜œ

boreal holly
torpid trout
#

not sure if you want to challenge the anti-phisicyan association or truly want to get removed. Be it whichever, f-o.

lean lark
inland sonnet
#

๐Ÿ˜‚

bright swift
#

what is this phisicyan stuff you guys talk about lol

lean lark
#

New topic: It's helpful to go back and look at AGENTS.md files. As the tech improves and my/our understanding of how things work improves, there's a lot of opportunities for tuning these static prompts that are easily forgotten.

lean lark
amber scaffold
#

Has anyone measured the retail price of inference provided in Codex subs? I know Claude 20x is ~ 5k in inference

bright swift
#

probably more, at least 10-15k, maybe even 20

lean lark
boreal holly
inland sonnet
#

some ppl in this chat are losers

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like damn

silver smelt
#

Why does OpenAI keep resetting limits

#

Just seems sus two resets within 3 days

fleet geyser
#

Mine's not reset yet

cedar skiff
#

mine was reset

silver smelt
#

Yeah I did

fleet geyser
#

hmm

silver smelt
#

Iโ€™m not complaining I was low and actually worrying if Iโ€™ll have enough and need to upgrade

fleet geyser
#

I've used 50% in two days so i'd love a reset lmao

silver smelt
#

Yeah dude usage def got slashed because im burning through usage now

#

Wasnโ€™t the case 2 weeks ago

cedar skiff
#

is it only he 5 hour window?

boreal holly
cedar skiff
#

this is what mine looks like atm - around 5% 5hour = 1% weekly

boreal holly
plush harbor
cedar skiff
#

Oh it is too

turbid axle
#

I guess we got another reset again?

lean lark
#

Before I go and create a utility, doe anyone have a process that assembles AGENTS.md files from components. Like - give it a recipe and it produces the AGENTS files for a given system based on OS, Location, Purpose, etc?
I'm still cleaning up these AGENTS files on my way to Skills. ๐Ÿ™„

ivory zodiac
#

what up

#

legends

lean lark
#

haven't seen this dude in a while

ivory zodiac
#

been busy as heck

#

building something fun

boreal holly
ivory zodiac
#

Can't wait to share it

#

isnt that animation sick

#

are you guys noticing a degradation in performance with compaction since 5.5?

lean lark
#

I kid you not, I've been thinking about doing something like that for days. Different character, (not You ๐Ÿคฃ ), but just getting my chops with sprites and canvas.

ivory zodiac
#

also i have noticed multi agents v2 is hell abugged

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recommend flagging this off

#

failed, stale agents galore

boreal holly
ivory zodiac
#

compaction forgets everything important

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and it compacts A LOT with computer use

boreal holly
ivory zodiac
#

could do it with a hook

#

but never needed to before

lean lark
#

Lots of peeps reporting model response weirdness from Codex, compaction issues, long response time. We can only talk about it here. Serious devs need to report to github and hopefully try to provide a convincing demo - can't provide repro cases with this stuff. ๐Ÿ™

ivory zodiac
#

i'm gonna try a virtual monitor

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low res

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might help with the compaction

#

computer use with a 7680*2160 display is...expensive lol

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4K*2

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8K/2

lean lark
#

Compaction gathers all user prompts into an array and posts it at the end of the session. Then it encrypts most/all model responses, not including (maybe) many transient events, and it appends that as a blob. So subsequent processes need to decrypt the blob.
The compaction doesn't actually remove the data from the session file (JSONL) but it may/probably only transmit from the new prompt-array downward.

ivory zodiac
#

a lot of the info its losing is within a skill.

#

maybe i'll prompt it to read the skill after each compaction

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i found a way around it and just delegated every single little subtask to a subagent

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this works

lean lark
#

Oh yeah, I believe it re-reads agents and skill headers and slaps them jus tabove that context. I don't recall at the moment.

bright swift
ivory zodiac
#

y eah. but i dont want it to do that globally so will have to setup a repo specific hook or seomthing

solid lake
#

Hopefully it changes

ivory zodiac
#

but yeah this never happened before.

boreal holly
ivory zodiac
#

it could just go on and on and on

lean lark
#

Gonna look at data to see if skills are inserted into compaction, BRB

bright swift
#

they are just normal tool results arent they

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and some tool results are dropped for compaction

ivory zodiac
lean lark
#

Interesting...

boreal holly
# ivory zodiac i may resort to somethign like this

Heck, if you have an Android tablet or iPad laying around I think you can turn one of those into a display just to see if it even makes a difference ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Now that you mention it, if you're using computer use then you're automatically getting updates to Codex, so they might've added some "eat my quota and forget everything" feature in yesterdays new version

lean lark
#

Skills and other instructions aren't added to the bottom of the sessions data after compaction. I have to believe their processing pulls specific objects from there and assembles them for transit on each turn. I'm gonna have to look to see if that's logged anywhere, maybe by diagnostic option.

ivory zodiac
#

dude heck yeah

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nah it can all be done off screen

#

yall wanna see soemthing cool

boreal holly
# ivory zodiac

Yooo, Computer Use uses the accessibility layer! That's awesome, they're implementing it the smart way

lean lark
#

This is sloppy but this is what I'm seeing in session logs:

System
Developer
Agents
Skills
Context
-- Prompt 1
-- Response 1
-- Prompt 2
-- Response 2
Compaction
-- [ Prompt 1, Prompt 2]
-- Encrypted response/event data

From there, what gets sent to the server? It has to be All of the top stuff and then from Compaction downward. That's kinda sloppy. This file is a log of what has happened. I'd like to see individual records of exactly what's on the wire for each turn. That would tell us whether skills are there after compaction or not.

boreal holly
ivory zodiac
#

๐Ÿ˜

lean lark
#

As I said, that was sloppy from what I'm reading, but that's the gist. I plan to look more closely. If anyone can find diagnostic options for logging, that would help, TY.

#

Gonna close shop early today, so bailing soon here.

boreal holly
#

Haha "Play rainbet until I make $2k" ๐Ÿ’€

ivory zodiac
#

lmao

#

๐Ÿ˜

gusty pagoda
#

it just reset again

boreal holly
lean lark
#

It should never trim a skills list, only remove the detail back to the headers.

ivory zodiac
#

wow this is nuts

lean lark
#

If that's still in 131 that would explain what Will said.

south latch
#

is codex mobile only for pro??? i have plus

velvet wren
#

I have Plus and have Codex mobile

south latch
lean lark
#

Codex Mobile is available for Plus. Mobile/Android to Windows is no longer working / unsupported yet.

south latch
lean lark
#

me too

velvet wren
#

time to get a Mac and iPhone

south latch
lean lark
#

It was working the other day "by accident" but as development continues they disabled it. ๐Ÿ™

sharp yew
#

i made peace with sama

lean lark
#

I'm sure he's relieved.

south latch
lean lark
#

Get a mac or wait ... or hold the WC for a while...

south latch
#

hold

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ye xD

velvet wren
#

Macs are a better user experience

lean lark
#

oh please, no OS or browser wars, please?

sharp yew
#

i like gemini!

gusty pagoda
#

i'm still using codex extension on my ide. waiting for the day codex comes to linux

boreal holly
lean lark
#

I prefer Lynx...

sharp yew
#

ladybird go brr

boreal holly
#

I prefer curl

ivory zodiac
#

chrome or helium

south latch
sharp yew
#

i use thorium because im lazy and helium doesnt support something i need but i cant recall atm

karmic gulch
#

anyone testet 3.5 flash vs 5.5 low?

ivory zodiac
south latch
ivory zodiac
#

i'm telling YOU ๐Ÿซต

sharp yew
#

i didnt give it a fair chance tbh but after his 'redesign' = add a dark mode with 0 contrast i just quit

potent mason
#

They just reset limits and I'm down to 80% weekly, damn it's going to be tough after May 31st

cosmic basin
#

did they?

plush harbor
#

yeah they must have, I'm back at 99%

cosmic basin
#

neat

#

more reasons to stay with codex lmao

sharp yew
#

they did the reset cuz the rates dont work properly

#

but hey, props to them for at least trying to compensate compared to cc

bright swift
cedar skiff
bright swift
#

i guess they mean may 31 instead of march, which means 5h limits will go down after though

#

or maybe they really mean march and they will not

boreal holly
#

No 2nd reset here, but not sweating it too much ๐Ÿ™ƒ

cedar skiff
rocky fog
boreal holly
potent mason
boreal holly
#

Lol retaliation

woven canyon
#

Lets go, we got a reset again

bright swift
#

thats my reading at least

#

It also means that the pro 100 is essentially the old pre-promo 200, better even because the old 200 was supposedly only 6x the usage of the old 20 plus

#

But whatever, as long as the resets keep coming lol

covert jolt
#

did codex 7 day limit get reduced recently?

bright swift
#

sry misread ๐Ÿ˜„

#

they didnt get reduced supposedly but there have been some problems with caching so they drained faster (for some) which is why there were 2 manual resets in last 2-3 days

woven canyon
#

I love manual resets

potent heron
#

Hey! I am trying to get into agentic workflows and was wondering the best way to start with it / how to learn it. I guess my main question is between codex and openclaw. I know codex has its own agent but can it do the same things openclaw can? Im a math guy so im not as fluent with the systems aspect of it lol

bright swift
#

they are very different things

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openclaw's goal is to be a personal assistant

potent heron
#

Right. But codex is able to connect to (some) apps right? So is it still possible to like automate it through codex as long as it can connect to the app?

bright swift
#

the codex app has a bunch of integrations yeah, and you can build whatever is missing with codex

#

and automations are built in too

tiny laurel
#

Within the codex app I believe u can make your own automation I suppose

karmic gulch
potent heron
#

I see. Ty all. Sorry for the silly questions lol

tiny laurel
#

dw, this is not stackoverflow, there're no question that is too silly

stuck warren
#

I am trying to use Codex with WSL and keep getting hung up on what needs to be configured where -- does the configuration in Windows matter, or the configuration in WSL? Or both?

bright swift
#

buy a mac

hallow dome
stuck warren
#

it feels like the answer is "configure it in both" and with little rhyme or reason

bright swift
#

did you ask codex

stuck warren
#

We've had really bad luck with using Azure with Codex, the user experience is just downright miserable

bright swift
#

it should be able to figure it out as the app server is open source

stuck warren
#

not with the backwater models we have avail in Azure

bright swift
#

azure has no gpt 5.5?

stuck warren
#

not in our region, it's 4.1 or 5.1 but 5.1 doesnt work half of the time

#

best I can tell they're throttle 5.1 due to lack of capacity on Azure

bright swift
#

wow thats ancient

stuck warren
#

yeah, hopefully AWS does a better job with things than Azure did

bright swift
#

my codex says this:

Short version: configure the environment where the codex process is actually running.

For WSL, treat Codex like a Linux app:

- User config/auth/logs: WSL side, usually ~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.codex/auth.json, ~/.codex/log/...
- Env vars like OPENAI_API_KEY, MCP tokens, PATH, node, python, git: set/install them inside WSL
- Project config: the repoโ€™s .codex/config.toml matters wherever the repo lives. If the repo is under /mnt/c/..., that file is physically on Windows disk but read through
  WSL.

Windows config only matters if they are running the native Windows Codex binary from PowerShell/CMD/Windows-side app. Then it uses Windows paths such as %USERPROFILE%\.codex
and %ProgramData%\OpenAI\Codex\config.toml.

A good diagnostic is to run this inside the terminal where they launch Codex:

which codex
codex doctor --all

If which codex points into /mnt/c/... or to codex.exe, they may be accidentally running the Windows binary from WSL. For the least confusion, install/run the Linux Codex
binary inside WSL and keep Codex config there.
stuck warren
#

thanks I'll have to futz with it more tomorrow. I tried to set up an MCP today and just nothing seemed to work right

#

as soon as you use azure half of the ui seems to just break

tiny laurel
#

With the new reset, Iโ€™m not sure if it affects anything, but previously when I ran a goal, it would continue running even after the credits ran out. Now, when the credits run out while itโ€™s running, it actually shows a message saying weโ€™re out of credits.

bitter fossil
#

Is GPT 5.5 going slow and acting stupid for anyone else today?

#

It's been on a simple task for an hour and repeated itself a few times

quick geode
#

๐Ÿ˜ฎ i got a usage reset was getting mighty close to having to stop for the week

cedar skiff
bitter fossil
#

I just ran into the issue that codex is opening at /Users/[users] rather then the directory you're in on the latest version

#

Something has gone bad

tiny laurel
#

I see no codex updates tho? Hm

pliant ether
#

whoever want to pplay amongus the code is FZULRG

bitter fossil
cosmic basin
somber sonnet
#

is /goal only available on 10x / 20x Pro plans?

tiny laurel
#

Plus plan works too, you need to enable it inside your config.toml

somber sonnet
tiny laurel
#

inside config.toml, put in

goals = true```
somber sonnet
tiny laurel
#

the app to use it, type /goal <your objective>, it should work, the app doesn't show /goal as a feature for whatever reason but it does send things as goal

somber sonnet
tiny laurel
#

It does ask me if I want to continue my goal after I accidentally turn off the app, so I think yeah

somber sonnet
#

Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it

cedar skiff
#

been using goal more in subagent tasks, gets pretty good results

tiny schooner
#

God Bless OpenCode. Been using GPT5.5 xHigh and it barely hit the Weekly limit.

trim rapids
#

what was the reset for this time

oak trellis
#

17% -3% .. yesterday it was 13% -1% on ... they cut the weekly limits now 2x ish

tiny schooner
#

I just connected my ChatGPT account in OpenCode

orchid echo
oak trellis
trim rapids
#

I thought that was just a joke and there was an actual reason stated somewhere

#

that's funny

tiny schooner
oak trellis
tiny schooner
#

I connected my ChatGPT account to OpenCode and it barely hit my limits.

oak trellis
#

wait .. so you go to opencode .. connect normal chatgpt ..

#

i need to test that lol ..

tiny schooner
#

Yeah and use GPT 5.5 xHigh

oak trellis
#

how ?! so install first opencode

tiny schooner
#

I just use Codex to monitor my limits lol

#

Yeah get their Desktop App

oak trellis
#

you mean codex desktop app or opencode desktop app

tiny schooner
#

Opencode Desktop App to do the coding using my ChatGPT Plus Subscription.
Codex Desktop App just to monitor my remaining rate limits.

oak trellis
#

ok bc chatgpt i never reach any ratelimit i dont even know where to see them ..

#

codex yes ..

oak trellis
#

that would be crazy if we get tight up the chatgpt browser and not the codex version .. that would be insane lol

indigo robin
#

will a compation event cost limit ?

oak trellis
tiny schooner
indigo robin
oak trellis
tiny schooner
tiny schooner
oak trellis
oak trellis
#

but also you said you have the 20 usd plan ..

indigo robin
trim rapids
indigo robin
#

ahhh isee

oak trellis
#

rate limit you showed are way better than mine on 100% usd plan ..

indigo robin
#

im guessimg codex prioritizes completeing a task as much as it can before compacting

#

but this can sause issues

#

where 2 big tasks back to back cause multiple compaction events

tiny schooner
#

Opencode is somehow more efficient

indigo robin
#

5 hour increments is great

oak trellis
indigo robin
#

whats opencode ?

tiny laurel
worldly charm
indigo robin
#

ahh

#

is it any good ?

worldly charm
#

Has generous usage limits

#

But

indigo robin
#

vs codex

worldly charm
#

Not codex/Claude level reasoning

indigo robin
#

i see

worldly charm
indigo robin
#

codex for the win

worldly charm
#

And it isn't reliable long term

#

Maybe paid plans of OpenCode might be a better competitior with codex

tiny schooner
worldly charm
#

Woah

tiny schooner
worldly charm
#

Is that free

indigo robin
#

like an api ?

tiny schooner
#

If you already have a Codex sub, then yes it's free

indigo robin
#

whats codex sub ?

worldly charm
worldly charm
tiny schooner
#

I love how the limits barely affect my weekly ones.

#

And I already had multiple sessions here

worldly charm
worldly charm
#

How did you integrate?

tiny schooner
#

I use OpenCode to do all the work and plug my OpenAI account there.

#

I use the Codex app to monitor my rate limits

tiny schooner
indigo robin
#

whats the benifit ?

worldly charm
#

I did use OpenCode but their own free models

worldly charm
indigo robin
#

my code quality wont degrade ?

tiny schooner
indigo robin
#

mm

plush harbor
#

if y'all found a loophole enjoy it before openai notices

cedar skiff
#

opencode app is pretty jank compared to codex app, i gave it a go with deepseek v4 i added $5 to the api and worked with it for a bit to get a feel for it. DS v4 pro is cheap compared to api prices but it uses a tonne of tokens and opencode app just doesnt have the utility codex app does.

tiny schooner
#

Doesn't matter if it sucks or not. The question is, will it get the job done more efficiently. It works for me, and it saves me a lot of limit compared to using Codex directly.

cedar skiff
#

How does it save tokens?

tiny schooner
cedar skiff
#

That's it? that has to be about 1% of the token usage tho

#

or less

trim rapids
#

it is difficult to see how a significant savings could be achieved in that area unless the codebase in question is such a cluster f that navigating it poses legitimate challenges to LLM agents

indigo robin
#

how can i make my codex compact more

#

i need it to have more room

cedar skiff
#

This is what opencode app said about it

cedar skiff
indigo robin
#

im about to start a big task and im currently at 93% filled tokens

tiny schooner
#

Probably magic instead. But in my experience, Codex would call some unrelated files and analyze them which wastes a lot of tokens.

indigo robin
#

i dont want it to compat mid task

tender nymph
#

Hello guys i have a question can i build a automated task with codex ? Generating content and images ?

cedar skiff
cedar skiff
# indigo robin i dont want it to compat mid task

i have chats that go one for many compactions and i just let it compact and it doesnt seem to matter at all. It used to, but they have a really good algo now, dunno what it is but it seems to just know everything it needs to.

tender nymph
#

For example creat describtion of a view , then creat image promt promt , then based on ilage promt he creat the image ? Can i do that ? Manually i used to like say next next

indigo robin
#

cant wait for robots to take over thr world

#

its gonna be dope

tender nymph
#

can i build a automated task with codex ? Without using api via n8n or smth

cedar skiff
#

You can do both, codex app has automations that are run like a cron job and skills allow for structured runs on demand

tender nymph
#

Instead of being hours to just tell chatgpt next no next content ect..

cedar skiff
#

You can do pretty much do all of it with skills and automations in codex app

tender nymph
cedar skiff
#

Define what this is: automated workflow with api

indigo robin
#

wow i wonder if i could have codex make me some mac automation tacks

tender nymph
#

All of that with n8n nodes

#

I wonder if i can build this with codex at a specific time daily

cedar skiff
#

and n8n just calls codex exec?

#

or is this all just a scripted run?

tender nymph
#

No i never used codex

#

Am asking if i can

#

Do this with codex

cedar skiff
#

I can't really answer without getting intimate with your actual work. Maybe someone else is willing to do that.

#

Seems like it should just work with a skill. But who knows with out knowing the details

tender nymph
#

Content to my blog with images

#

I generate articles and images

cedar skiff
#

What platform are you on?

orchid echo
#

anyone else feel like Codex usage is still depleting fast?

tiny laurel
#

Yes, i now write a while sprint with all the skills thatโ€™s needed for it to be completed , computer use, manual smoke testing with mcp. each sprint runs like an hour just bcuz the usage depleting so fast

#

I miss the time where I could just spam reques

amber scaffold
#

Can you guys see tool calls? Did they hide it?

compact dawn
#

USAGE RESET??

#

i was at 20% remaining

#

so CLUTCH

bright swift
#

noooooo

plush harbor
#

so that wasn't a feature, it was a bug

bright swift
#

๐Ÿ™

kindred mauve
#

Is here a support chat?

bright swift
#

yes emotional support for depleted usage limits

orchid echo
#

crazy how fast usage limits are depleting now

rocky fog
pallid elbow
#

yo bros, where can i see my usage?

pallid elbow
orchid echo
#

or enable status line settings

lucid mason
#

That already happened in the past if you sent a follow-up while it was hitting limits.

bright swift
#

i guess yea

#

wonder if it loops and then autoresumes the goal but i guess not

cedar skiff
#

yeah goal has resume

#

and pause

karmic gulch
#

If you haven't tried it, set up Claude as your dispatch (basically yourself
as PM) and spin up 3-4 Codex terminal windows. Mac Mini runs 24/7 on
autopilot toward a clear endgame, Claude manages, Codex does the heavy
lifting.

Running this nonstop on a CRM refactor (that about 50 ppl use). iPad in the corner for
status from dispatch, Mac Mini just grinding away.

Each Codex window does plan-first, runs tests, self-reviews, writes
detailed commits, updates docs in the same commit. Dispatch kills loops
when Codex spirals and enforces hard boundaries (no destructive
migrations, no prod push, no breaking changes against prod mobile apps).

Hits different once you stop micromanaging. Claude alone couldn't pull
this off, Codex precision + Claude PM is unreal โœŒ๐Ÿผ

bright swift
#

but why claude as pm?

karmic gulch
#

1M context window opus + the cleanness of Claude Dispatch on macOS that just
works with no hazzle together witht the Claude ios on my ipad and phone. Setup is Claude as overhead PM, Codex actually has the power to plan the next batch from agents.md and a few other .mds, pick which
subagents to use, all the granular stuff. Claude is more the PM that
keeps Codex from re-testing the same feature 4 times and actually keeps
it moving toward the endgame. Codex is insane at the impl detail as we all agree on right๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป Claude
is good at the zoom-out and not letting it spiral (that it tends to do ugh..)lol

#

Give it a try for a few hours and test it

cedar skiff
#

Actually sounds like it could work well, claude is better at semantic understanding.

#

codex is better at following instructions

bright swift
#

yea claude is definitely nicer for some higher level stuff, could be worth a shot

#

whats nice about codex as PM though is that with the sub agents v2 feature it can have a back and forth with the subagents mid-task. so maybe best of both worlds is to run this in codex with opus as main model (will be API pricing though), then use subagents with worktrees + v2

simple star
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Fellas, I am not sure if I am understanding the point of "skills" in some cases. Take for instance the skill for "Sentry". Before I was using Sentry through the MCP server, with I authenticated via OAuth, and I could do everything... read issues, mark them as resolved... But with the skill, now, apparently I cant do any of that. I have to create an API token, and even then, I cannot set it anywhere to be used automatically every time. Instead I have to manually export it every time I want to use the skill... This seems useless as worst, tedious at best

bright swift
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use the cli instead and just put "use sentry." in agents.md

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codex will figure it out from the --help output

simple star
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I was talking about the CLI from the beginning

bright swift
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are you sure you have the right one? i know a previous version had the problems you mentioned of not being able to close issues https://cli.sentry.dev/

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i havent used mine in a few weeks because i'm currently bug-free ๐Ÿ˜„

simple star
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The one from the skill market

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Using this seems a lot simpler:

bright swift
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well anyway when i last used it and the cli wasnt able to close issues... codex just used the auth token from the cli as bearer token and made manual api calls lol

cedar skiff
simple star
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I have to admit... im not particularly sold on the "skills" thingie

bright swift
cedar skiff
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They need to be more to the point and around one sentence eg: For All sentry usage - Use in all cases where sentry is used.

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but the end up with huge descriptions that are over bloated and too easy to ignore

simple star
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The concept of a "skill" in itself seems kinda de-meriting the model itself. I was expecting AI to be smart enough to know what it needs to do, without me having to "configure" its skillset

bright swift
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i mostly use skills only manually invoked (you can configure that) as saved prompts

simple star
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Yeah, but still... I wish I didnt have to

cedar skiff
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The description matters and it's over looked and probably was in that eval as well.

bright swift
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these are all symptoms of the bitter lesson. just workarounds until the next model doesnt need it anymore..

cedar skiff
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I'll go look and see if they give the skills used

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I have skills and they almost never overlooked

bright swift
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but we still need to make it work with current model ofc ๐Ÿ˜„

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the thing is that agents.md receives higher attention by the model as its sent seperately from the conversation history

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skills are just tool results that get dropped by autocompact etc

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maybe thats why i feel like i have unlimited context window, because i have this compressed agents.md

cedar skiff
bright swift
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agents.md is sent on every call as a seperate field

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thats why codex is so good at following instructions

cedar skiff
bright swift
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clone openai/codex and ask codex about it

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i did some weeks ago, i'm pretty sure this is correct

cedar skiff
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It's only the skill meta data that is injected as well. so when it is actually called the information is loaded at the right time right next to the task it is designed to use.

bright swift
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maybe not re-sent on every call. but its in there as it own

cedar skiff
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what does that mean?

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skills are weighted heavily they are in the system prompt

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It's a skill description problem i bet my left but

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Or maybe even bad skill implementation

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see this this is why the skill they used didnt work

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that description is really bad

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the description needs to be <what it is> - <when to use it>

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i had this problem early on as well, and i interrogated the agent why it didnt use the skills. The general gist of it is it's too easy to ignore and rely on training instead. That description doesnt even say when to use it.

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If they change it to be `Next.js best practices - Use when working with next.js

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it'll work

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you can also use stronger language

torpid trout
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I just asked it yesterday about it because I renamed agents to soemthing custom

cedar skiff
torpid trout
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Itโ€™s added โ€žbegin of original messageโ€œ so it responded within <instructions> delimiter

cedar skiff
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once at the start and not even into the system prompt

simple star
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Ok, I tried again with the MCP server directly, for Sentry. This is WAY easier

cedar skiff
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The problem with mcp servers is the tools live in the context, i bet it's just a bad skill.

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on the other hand it looks like skills do get attention every turn

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The description is just a prompt and you know what bad prompts are like

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this is the sentry skill description

Use when the user asks to inspect Sentry issues or events, summarize recent production errors, or pull basic Sentry health data via the Sentry CLI; perform read-only queries using the `sentry` command.
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so it only uses it if you ASK

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bad description

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change it to this:
Sentry usage instructions - Always use when doing anything with sentry

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and it will use it

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the current description is broken because it says when the user asks

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I have MANY skills and spent tonnes of time working them out.

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If you arent using them you are missing out

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TLDR: skills are weighted heavier than agents.md and description matters

simple star
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I think I might uninstall them all...

cedar skiff
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It's tough to be wrong, but you will be ok in the long run. Eventually they will be auto generated and maintained out of sight.

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So you wont need to understand it

acoustic fiber
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why is codex obsessed with readonly stuff, guardrails, tons of lateral coding for hours and days before starting to code even the first line of what I asked it to do? Is that related to xHigh setting maybe?

torpid trout
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5.5 xhigh for me is only useful for complex plans, eventually security reviews, stuff like that
Implementation it totally overthinks. high or medium are far enough.

plush harbor
cedar skiff
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sock account

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just here to poke

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first comment ever just after i annoyed that other guy

tiny fulcrum
safe bridge
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Question - is /goal available in the Codex app yet? I dont see it but maybe i need to enable a setting

cedar skiff
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It has full support with a nice little ui etc

safe bridge
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Yah i made a little command wrapper but would prefer to use an official one in case i am missing something.

cedar skiff
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It's not there yet for some reason

safe bridge
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Ok cool just wanted to make sure i wasnt missing something obvious..ill keep using my hacky approach for now then

rocky fog
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I thought for a good while that when I start typing /goal it will show it in auto completion and just assumed its not available yet (in vscode extension)
also another guy here
but you just type /goal whatever
and it works
should also work in app I believe (the other guy said it worked there)

zinc field
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Did anyone else get their weekly usage reset again about 14 hours ago?

velvet wren
zinc field
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Itโ€™s a bit annoying how it adds 3 days to the next reset, but I understand why.

velvet wren
zinc field
velvet wren
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I am not complaining though ๐Ÿ™‚

zinc field
velvet wren
torpid trout
velvet wren
torpid trout
zinc field
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๐Ÿ˜‚

neat hound
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hello, i know there's the mobile app to work remotely, but can we work remotely with from another computer too ? if so how ?

zinc field
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GitHub + sign in?

glad crater
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Whoops I accidentally deleted my message. Has anyone gotten push notifications from the ChatGPT app with codex working? In the app I have the option to set notifications but I canโ€™t enable them in my iPhone because ChatGPT doesnโ€™t show up under notification settings nor is that setting available when I go into the app settings within the iPhone

velvet wren
glad crater
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Mine just doesnโ€™t even have the option to enable notifications in the apps iPhone settings (not in the ChatGPT app itself it has them there and they are set)

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Oh well Iโ€™ll figure it out. Thank you for verifying

boreal holly
rocky fog
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reset wen everyday

torpid trout
bright swift
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chief token observer lol gonna steal that

timber cosmos
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so .. those of us running Codex via API are pretty much getting hosed, eh?

torpid trout
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The api is for "sold services", like, not when you use it yourself

velvet wren
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I don't know why anyone would use the API for Codex usage

timber cosmos
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mostly to ensure no usage limits, but yeah, I am very much second guessing the value of that

velvet wren
timber cosmos
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evidently

gentle harbor
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are you joking ? instead of finishing it just stops now

timber cosmos
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thanks for confirming my suspicion as to how silly I've been

torpid trout
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meaning yes, it stops now, as it should.

torpid trout
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According codexbar I am somehwere around 600 dollar per day, if I where using the api

gentle harbor
torpid trout
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that's like you dont pay an employee and expect them to finish anyway
Reminds me of which - I should go delete that one clients site who did exactly that to me

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just that that is illegal, while not paying the bill, is an administrative issue between client and provider, is it.

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thanks "law" for having my back.

rocky fog
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or otherwise revert to previous commit until you can

bright swift
torpid trout
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pay > get work results > pay > repeat
That is how the world should work.

Unfortunately somehow many expect it in reverse, or even better simply never pay, give free. Its called profit maximizing lol.

bright swift
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2,6 billion tokens yday

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still rookie numbers ๐Ÿ™

potent mason
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Well shoot, 42% usage remaining

obsidian prairie
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these resets are kinda scammy

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i just saved usage for 2 days and now reset got me back to 100% with 7 days window again

past mist
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DID THEY SERIOUSLY RESET THE WEEKLY LIMIT DATE AGAIN

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what a ####### scam

velvet wren
bright swift
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what reset? the one from yesterday? almost used it up

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reset wen

sacred minnow
past mist
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this is actually a scam

bright swift
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you're holding it wrong

rocky fog
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wait he is actually serious ๐Ÿ˜„

bright swift
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tokenmaxx 24/7

past mist
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it messes up the windows because of the 2x ending on may 31st

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even if you are tokenmaxxing

potent mason
bright swift
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there will be 1-2 more manual resets before that

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1 bug + 1 model release

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maybe a 3rd for the 1 million user milestone thingy

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just go with the flow and tokenmaxx

past mist
potent mason
rocky fog
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usually the hints are on that awful x site ๐Ÿ˜„

indigo robin
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codex is moving so slow lol

frozen shore
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was the limits lowered recently?

indigo robin
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i had a task that took 2.5 hours

past mist
frozen shore
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5 hour finishing too fast

bright swift
indigo robin
potent mason
past mist
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because of may 31st

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I had a plan to extract 3 weekly limits worth of value out because of the double limit promo this month

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now iโ€™m limited to 2 weeks + the 20% that I used before reset

bright swift
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you can empty a 20x plan in a little over a day

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so youre still on track

amber scaffold
bright swift
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and 2x is permanent for 20x so dont stress about may 31st

velvet wren
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it's only 9am in OpenAI land, we might see something happen today

amber scaffold
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Have you guys seen the reports that usage is being drained faster?

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Was just considering starting codex 20x today

indigo robin
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100% it is

bright swift
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they are yes, they still havent fixed the caching

signal tapir
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I've been gone for a few days. Was there another reset?

bright swift
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which is why im saying more resets coming

past mist
amber scaffold
past mist
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so ig the resets only screw over that plan?

signal tapir
potent mason
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Token usage: total=59,194,427 input=57,566,491 (+ 1,758,266,112 cached) output=1,627,936 (reasoning 355,999)

Nice this was from a goal I left running yesterday

past mist
# bright swift

Yeah it looks like reset only screws over the people rationing their $100 plan

indigo robin
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i mean arent the resets good ?

bright swift
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only the ones who dont tokenmaxx

potent mason
rocky fog
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they have been doing manual early resets all the time
adapt ๐Ÿ˜„

indigo robin
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you get more time to use it

orchid echo
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if they made resets keep the same weekly reset date, then that would be nice

past mist
obsidian prairie
indigo robin
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i mean in reality youve tokenmaxxed passed the threshhold id see that as a win

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dimensional TokenMaxxing

bright swift
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but i get your point ๐Ÿ˜„

potent mason
bright swift
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i just want an autoscaling api for 20x subs inside a single account

indigo robin
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can you use the API feature in codex ?

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i mean Xcode

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lmfao honest mistake

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they litterslly just shifted the X lmfaoooo

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X Code > Code X

past mist
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I tokenmaxxed at first but only using codex 2 days of the week was unsustainable. By spacing it out I can become more addicted and reliant on using it

indigo robin
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my codex also just keeps compating and its pissing me off lol

indigo robin
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welcome to the dark side

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people who hate AI also hate themselves ive figured it out lol

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for not having the drive to learn what they love , its all jealousy

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compacting also makes codex forget some of the tasks you give it

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not as in previous tasks up the thread but even new ones

orchid echo
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i always notice after compaction, it literally forgets the exact thing they were just doing so it does that same task again

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so dumb

indigo robin
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yup

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it wasnt this bad on 5.4

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5.5 is bad though

potent mason
indigo robin
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and constant reconnecting

bright swift
indigo robin
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what do yall even make while tokem maxing ?

bright swift
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building a system to orchestrate agents to tokenmaxx

indigo robin
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wow

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gigaMaxxers

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๐Ÿ˜‚

velvet wren
indigo robin
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sweet

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what is it

orchid echo
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๐Ÿ”ฅ

velvet wren
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it's an image and video model app which has drag and drop of clips and images to other apps

indigo robin
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ahh i see

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and your using codex as an API ?

velvet wren
indigo robin
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can i offer a suggestion ?

velvet wren
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of course

indigo robin
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one moment

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id structure it like this

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id honestly change alot of hings around but i dont wannna infringe on your personal taste

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but if you want i could help you make your app more beautiful

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id also make all menues collapsable so when you want to preview your video you have nothing els to look at

velvet wren
indigo robin
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you can do the same at the bottom

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and have more realestate for the video the main focus

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yall wanna see the app im working on ?

velvet wren
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sure

indigo robin
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i try and make asthetic the main priority since we have the coding agent i think workflow and ui is the most important thing to be aware of

boreal holly
signal tapir
indigo robin
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whats that ?

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i did also say workflow

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as in the user experience

signal tapir
indigo robin
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for sure

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10000000%

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thats the goal in the later half of the project

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i only spoke in general terms for any codex built project

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in terms of my project

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its a tool and a learning device , i agree fully

bright swift
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my main project doesnt have any UI and thats why its my favorite

indigo robin
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aye yeo stright terminal text

bright swift
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yup

indigo robin
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fire

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tokenmaxxers are elite

signal tapir
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I'm looking forward to a program that lets me just play the piano, and have an AI tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to practice to get better.

bright swift
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should be possible already

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maybe not live but with gemini video analysis

indigo robin
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im actually doing that soon too im starting with guitar first though

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but feel free to try and make one too , the world is for all of us

signal tapir
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I'm busy making games. ๐Ÿ˜›

indigo robin
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woah

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do you also do graphic design ?

signal tapir
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I just want to consume music training apps, not make them

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No, my wife handles all the art.

indigo robin
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i could help with the audio then

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ive been making beats for 12 years now

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what kind of game is it ?

signal tapir
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We already have a musician, but thanks for the offer. ๐Ÿ™‚

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It's a 4x space game.

indigo robin
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no problem : )

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nice

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best of luck

signal tapir
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Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚

indigo robin
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whats it called ?

signal tapir
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Exalted Descendant

indigo robin
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any preview material ?