r/OpenaiCodex

well, not only me, soo many people now vibecoded their own Excel , so now emergency break?

Companies replaced developers with AI, developers replaced companies with AI 😅😅😅

It's f** slow

and

It's acting like a eng that don't give a f*

Opus 5.5 about to get crushed by somthing they’re cooking I just know it.

At least I hope 🙏

Has anyone seen this Codex / ChatGPT error before?

RuntimeError: The invoking thread is not attached to an active Aeon

It started today (Oct 7) while using a ChatGPT Dot/assistant that had previously been able to create and control Codex tasks on my Windows PC.

What is strange:

• Codex itself still works if I talk to it directly
• Normal conversation with the Dot works
• The Dot could still read an existing Codex task
• But the Dot cannot send new instructions to that task
• It cannot create a new Codex task
• It also cannot list my connected computers

All three operations return the same active Aeon RuntimeError.

Before this happened, my PC was shown as connected, attached and authorized.

I already tried restarting the PC, reopening ChatGPT, updating the app, creating a new Codex task and re-confirming permissions.

I searched for the exact error but couldn't find a single public report of it.

Has anyone encountered this before, especially with Dots/Work → Codex integration?

Could this be a broken server-side association between the assistant conversation and its Codex execution context?

Direct Codex still working makes me think the Codex service itself is fine.

UPDATE 2 — Aeon error is gone, but local execution is still broken

The original active Aeon error has disappeared. My Dot can now see the connected PC and create a local Codex task again.

However, even a simple Get-Location command fails with:

helper_unknown_error: setup refresh had errors

I restarted ChatGPT and reconnected the PC, but local execution still fails.

Anyone else seeing this after the Aeon incident recovery?

The dev day felt like a stimulus check for some reason.. i miss the flawless design from Fable.. Opus 5.5 is apparently much better than Sol, and Astra is still too heavy on the usage..

I can't really see why i would stay..

What are the pro's that would keep me on gpt?

I’m on 20x GPT plan with Pro Claude as minor support, 3 months ago it was the opposite.

I’m a solo founder based in Georgia, currently building two products - a consumer app and a developer tool. I’m also a mom, so between bootstrapping the products and normal life expenses, $200/month for ChatGPT Pro is honestly difficult for me right now.
I use ChatGPT/Codex heavily for development, debugging and product work, and I keep hitting my limits much faster than I expected.
I recently joined the OpenAI Startup Community and I’m already looking into startup programs and hackathons, but I’m interested about people’s actual experience:
Have any solo founders here received ChatGPT Pro, Codex credits, API credits, startup grants, hackathon prizes, or other legitimate credits/access?
Not looking for hacks or shared accounts just real programs or opportunities I might be missing.
Would really appreciate any pointers.

I know it's kind of obvious from a business point of view, that the reset should reset everything and literally everything including the quota and the time till the next auto renew.

But I thought the Reset works where the quotas are reset and the auto renew timer will still remain. Only after my first reset, I understood that they just simply push the auto renew date also by 1 week.

That's kind of shit imo. I guess it will push more people to buy the $100 plan probably.

Hi everyone!

I’m working on a few projects at my job, and I’d like to get some advice on how I’m using Codex and ChatGPT in general.

Right now, I’m using Codex and ChatGPT to develop a project at work, specifically for software development. I have a few questions and would like to get some advice, maybe even some guidance on what path to follow, so I can better understand what I should be doing, what I should keep doing, what I might want to stop doing, and so on.

I want to make better use of these tools, understand how they can make my work easier, and achieve better and more professional results. I would consider myself somewhere between a beginner and intermediate user when it comes to Codex. At the moment, I’m using Codex Desktop.

I started the project by talking directly with ChatGPT, explaining my ideas and what I needed to build. We refined the idea together and created an overall architecture and plan for how to execute the project.

The workflow I started using is roughly this:

I have ChatGPT analyze the project on GitHub. It also updates the documentation. In addition, it analyzes the project on GitHub, reviews what we have discussed inside the project folder in ChatGPT — and this part is important because it is one of the things I’m a little unsure about — and finally, I ask it to generate a prompt for me to use with Codex.

It does all of that and generates a huge prompt, which I then send to Codex to execute. Codex carries out the task, I take the result and send it back to ChatGPT, and then ChatGPT gives me some “smoke tests,” as it usually calls them, so I can test what was implemented.

That is basically what I have been doing.

The problem is that I simply don’t know whether this is the best way to work, or at least whether it is a good way to work. I would really appreciate some advice and criticism regarding the process I’m currently using.

I also don’t know whether there are any skills that I absolutely should be using, or whether there are plugins, tools, or other ways of using Codex and ChatGPT that I should know about.

Right now, I mainly work this way to save tokens and try to make my requests more precise. I talk a lot with ChatGPT, it helps me understand and refine the idea, and then I ask it to structure the prompt in the best possible way before I send it to Codex.

Even so, I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of the potential of these tools simply because I don’t know them well enough.

There is an overwhelming amount of content on YouTube, and I don’t even know where to start. Every week, something new appears claiming that it will “revolutionize” the way people use Codex.

I’m completely open to criticism regarding everything I’ve described. I’d like to learn about alternative workflows that could help me get more value from these tools and work in a more professional way. It could be something similar to what I’m already doing or something completely different. I just want to understand things better and have some kind of roadmap to follow.

I’d like to understand:

- How do you organize context for projects that last for months?

- Where do you record important decisions so that agents don’t forget them?

- Does using something like Obsidian make sense, or is there a better solution?

- Do you use files such as "AGENTS.md", documentation inside the repository itself, or some other structure? (At the moment, I ask ChatGPT to create an "AGENTS.md" file.)

- How do you divide the work between ChatGPT and Codex?

- Does my workflow of discussing things in ChatGPT → generating a prompt → executing it in Codex → reviewing the result in ChatGPT make sense?

- Are there any skills, MCPs, plugins, or tools that you consider essential?

- What would you do differently in my process?

Another issue I really need help with is context and memory.

ChatGPT helps me, explains a lot of things, and based on those discussions, we make decisions. For example, before I even started programming this project, I spent several days talking with ChatGPT and trying to better understand the project itself before actually writing any code.

The problem is that some of the decisions we made are simply being forgotten as the project progresses. I feel like it is gradually losing the project context.

I’d like to better understand how to provide context and how to make sure it can consistently remember the decisions we have already made.

I’ve heard quite a lot about using Obsidian, building a “second brain,” harnesses, and other things like that. But what I really want to understand is what I should actually do in practice, where I should learn more about this, and how I could build my own system to avoid situations where we make a decision and, by the end of the project, the AI simply no longer remembers it.

And I don’t even consider this project large enough for the AI to be forgetting certain details. In fact, just today I had to remind it about something we had already discussed before, and only after I reminded it were we able to continue thinking about the implementation.

I’ve also heard that ChatGPT has a limited amount of memory/context, equivalent to a few hundred pages or perhaps even less, when it comes to keeping track of information.

I’d like to understand how to mitigate this problem. How can I actually build this “second brain” and have some confidence that the AI will not forget something I asked for or a decision we made, even if it happened months ago?

I’m on the cheapest paid plan, the $20/month plan, and I also don’t know what limitations it has regarding these issues compared with the other plans.

Well, I think those are the main things I can remember right now.

I really need this kind of help and advice so I can understand how to improve my software development process and make better use of AI so that we can actually produce professional-quality work.

This message was translated into English by an AI. So if any part of the translation doesn’t make sense, please let me know and I’ll check it and explain more clearly what I meant.

I’m also having some problems with the frontend and with UX/UI. Codex built that part in a way that I didn’t really like, so I’m redesigning it using Figma Make, and I plan to integrate this new frontend into the existing project later.

If anyone has any advice on how to handle that integration without causing too much rework or creating unnecessary problems, I’m all ears. But that isn’t the main focus of this post — it’s just an additional question.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

When GPT-6 Astra launched, I was completely blown away. I signed up for the €229/mo ChatGPT Pro 200 subscription believing it was worth every penny for serious development work, and I didn’t think I’d be touching Claude anytime soon.

Then comes the recent email from OpenAI. Starting October 30th, they are literally cutting the Pro 200 usage allowance in half dropping Codex/Work limits from 20x to 10x Plus and Chat limits from 200 down to 100 messages/week, all while keeping the exact same price tag (€229/month).

To make matters worse, their "solution" for power users is forcing us toward a new Pro 500 tier at €509,99/month just to get decent limits and Ultrafast speeds.

Here is the reality from actual daily heavy use:

Astra on Ultra Reasoning mode drains usage limits like crazy. Even at €229/mo, I constantly hit my weekly limits just auditing and running code checks.

For actual heavy-lifting, multi-file code execution, and refactoring, Opus 5.5 is still doing the actual heavy lifting for me with better consistency and zero back-and-forth games.

A $2,500 temporary credit band-aid expiring in December doesn't fix a long-term 50% nerf to a top-tier sub. Paying €229/mo for half the quota or getting nudged to pay over €500/mo for a plan that will still run out during serious crunch weeks is simply not true bang for buck.

I'm downgrading my subscription. Anyone else in the same boat?

I’m on 20x Pro. I had around 35% of my weekly limit left while working with Sol 6.1, and then, just like a snap of the fingers, I was suddenly at 0%.

The 10k credits I was granted were gone within a few minutes too.

I’ve now used my banked reset, left just one Sol 6.1 session running on Max reasoning, and I’m literally watching my weekly limit drop by 1% in less than a minute.

What the heck is going on, Tibo? 😅

I was thinking of using the credits during the cooldown period or when I run out quota.

How much better is the quota of the Pro plan over the Plus plan? Thoughts and suggestions are welcomed.

I think tibo or whoever need to know meaning of reset

tl;dr - Too much focus on research, they don't understand product, and they might be the biggest company (if not the first company) to die from the suffering of success.

I've been a paying subscriber since the day subs went live because the value prop was, and has always been, undeniable. I'm not a fanboy, just decided that they were cooking and that I wanted to come along for the ride.

I think the core problem is that lately they've been growing so fast that the service can't keep up (suffering from success). They started by secretly degrading the service to levels deemed "acceptable" so that existing users hopefully wouldn't notice (or mind enough to leave) and that new users would still be impressed enough to subscribe. Previously, I had thought this was all just speculation and that this subreddit was just being dramatic as usual but I think we can all agree that their recent moves confirm these suspicions. For them to officially slash usage is as clear an indicator as any that they are buckling under the growth.

I think that in order to solve that core problem they need more compute and to get more compute they need to sell investors on their self-proclaimed ability to "create entirely new types of customers" or something to that effect as Sam put it when he was recounting a story of a conversation between he and his mentor Peter Thiel. If they can sell investors that they can create new markets with their products then they can get the billions/trillions they need to build out the compute and yada yada yada, we know all of that.

The problem with that is while they are undoubtably the most talent research lab the word has seen yet and will probably ever see (my opinion) they have proven with the launch of Dots, and Codex, and every single product since Chat GPT, that they don't understand product on a very deep level. Now you could say that I don't either, I'm just a game developer, but I'm also a customer and no one understands product better than the customer. Every founder in Silicon Valley should know that.

Sam Altman has said in his own words that he "wishes" he could spend more time on product and that all of his focus is on research. Well, I think that needs to change. Dots is, as was OpenClaw, a solution in search of a problem. Not only that, it is not even nearly as useful as OpenClaw in its current state despite them hiring the actual creator of OpenClaw to build it. Huh?? And then to take compute away from their actual magical, incredibly useful product with potential to literally change the world (Codex) in order to power such an objectively bad product just to sell a dream to investors is the exact type of decisions that I think will kill them in the end.

I get that their models may end up being so efficient that competitors won't even matter in the future (that is so clear to me with 6.1 Sol) but if they have to degrade the service to the point it is unusable essentially just to continue to exist as a company then it simply does not matter how efficient and great the models are.

My advice: Focus on product now. Build things that work and give consistent value, things that can be relied upon, and us loyal customers will stick with you. If you continue down this road, then even I, one of your most loyal subscribers will have to dip out too.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. AI was not used for this post in any shape or form. In fact, I only posted here because my wife asked "Isn't there a community of like-minded individuals you can vent to?" LOL

I have been OpenAI user for a long time and never subscribed Claude because of my High Usage and I heard recently they have increased usage limit. But, can someone Answer this:

Does Claude has separate limit for WebChat and Codex/Claude Code like OpenAI? I save my Codex usage a lot by make Web Chat do some heavy work. It has done many heavy tasks for my like Converting a Full Flash games to Native HTML taking over 2 hours that would've consumed millions of token.

If not how many hours of usage I would expect using Opus 5.5 and Sonet 5.5 in Extra mode per week while making web apps and games which requires lots of revisions? ($100 plan).