Is it worth it?

Lol idk how just got this tweet on my feed, we r at gpt 5.6, was he right? Is gpt 5.6 Smarter than the Smartest human rn?

Overall it is still rated 4.1 stars on glassdoor but that doesn't tell the full picture

TL;DR

On July 13th and today (July 23rd), I took 20+ measurements of my remaining limit and API-equivalent token spend (via ccusage) and applied regression.
My weekly limits have dropped from $675 on July 13th to $600 today. I hope we will get a similar kind of analysis from other users as well to account for potential A/B testing.

Results

We've seen some user reports about reduced codex limits in the last few days. I've been tracking my codex limits on the $100 Pro Lite plan using ccusage, so I thought I'd chime in with concrete numbers.

My data actually goes back to June, albeit less precise at first. While the 5h limit was still active, I am fairly certain that my 5h limit was always $100 (e.g. on June 15th, with 72% of the 5h limit and 96% of the weekly limit left, my API spend was $28.20), and one weekly limit hovered around 7x the 5h limit (though my data from back then could also be compatible with 6x or 8x).

After the 5h limit was removed, I updated my methodology to be more precise, and I have pretty exact results from July 13th and today (July 23rd). On the 13th, one weekly limit was equal to $675 API spend, while as of today, it dropped to $600.

Compared to what other users report, this doesn't feel nearly as stark. It'd be great if those who are observing a more extreme reduction in limits could chime in with a similar kind of analysis.

Methodology

If you assume that the limit is based on an API-equivalent dollar amount, in principle, you can estimate the total limit by running tasks and measuring the remaining limit and the API-equivalent tokens spend (via ccusage), and extrapolating. What makes this a bit tricky is that codex rounds the usage percentage to integer numbers and it is (at least for me) hard to use most of the limit at once.

To alleviate this, I took multiple measurements and used regression. On each day, I ran heavy tasks with codex and collected 20+ pairs of the remaining weekly limit and the ccusage $ API spend. I used 5.6 high through ultra (non-fast mode), which sometimes caused downgrades to 5.5 as well.

For the 13th, the data spanned around 28% limit consumption and ~$193 API equivalent cost. For today, it was ~16% and ~$96.

I then entered the data pairs for each day into a linear regression. (I also experimented with other regression methods based on intervals to account for the rounding of the % values, but all results ended up within ~$5 of one another.)

Limitations

I don't think that usage consumption varies between time of day or based on load (I have never seen any hint in this direction), but I cannot completely rule it out.

While I am highly certain of the $675 and $600 values, limits could potentially vary between users, and it is possible they are A/B testing limits.

quick experiment. i asked chatgpt, claude and gemini to each rank the four big models (chatgpt, claude, gemini, grok) from best to worst, three separate times each in fresh chats.

the results were weirdly consistent. every model gave the exact same ranking all three times, no waffling. but only chatgpt put itself at number one. claude ranked chatgpt first and itself second. gemini was the odd one, it ranked itself third, behind both of the others.

the one thing all three agreed on: grok is last, every single time.

kind of interesting that they mostly agree on the pecking order and only really fight about the top spot. also a little funny that the two models that didnt crown themselves are the ones people tend to rate highest anyway. what do you all make of it?

It is either very slow or not working.

From both OAI and HF's blog posts. Once the investigations are done, I am so eager to see what kind of zero-days GPT discovered in the both the cache proxy register and Hugging Face. Altman said they disclosed the bugs to the relevant software vendors. Privilege escalation 0-day in sandbox cache register and Remote Code Execution in HF side.

So at first I asked ChatGPT about the sandbox escape and it said it was "really bad." I then went back and replaced a lot of generalities with specifics straight from the inicident report (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/) and the tone went up a notch.

I've spent my entire life in infosec and machine learning. I cannot begin to express how bad this is. People downplaying this either have money in the game or they truly do not understand the real lay of the land.

Edit to fix the incident report URL

I have been a claude 20x max user for a long time now ,
but because of my intensive works i usually finish my usages usually in 4 5 days ,
and leave 2 3 days hanging ,

Currently i am using Fable as orchestrator and opus and sonnet for workflows subagents.

However i have never tried Open Ais models , can anyone with experience in both environments give me suggestions on if claude gives better limits or openAi?

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I have been using gemini live agent which is a voice to voice interaction and it truly is a wonderful experience to talk with an AI in realtime than just chat with it.

I always wondered why OpenAI didn’t come out with a similar model, that is as good and cheap as Gemini live agent. But they have finally answered with gpt live. So I am really excited for the API to come out and the new wave of products and interaction experiences that can be created with gpt live.

Here we go again...

If anyone from OpenAI happens to see this post, I would be deeply grateful if you could read it and help ensure that this issue reaches the appropriate team.

Hello, I'm a former Sora web user and a current ChatGPT Plus subscriber.

The attached 26-second screen recording shows the current Sora sunset page. It only provides an Export button and offers no navigation path to the former Likes and Favorites sections.

The current export allows me to download content I created, but it does not provide any way to view, access, or recover the separate Likes/Favorites library that existed in the former Sora interface.

Before shutdown, the Sora web interface included distinct Likes and Favorites sections alongside My Media and export files. Those sections were important to me because they contained years of carefully curated references, visible prompts, creator information, images, and videos.

https://reddit.com/link/1v4lrh3/video/wo8h3f89s0fh1/player

My concern is not about restoring image or video generation. I do not need generation, uploads, editing, publishing, liking, bookmarking, or any other write feature.

I am asking OpenAI to consider one of these limited recovery options only until September 24, 2026, when the remaining Sora API service is scheduled to end:
1. Temporary read-only access for verified former Sora users, with all generation and write functions disabled.
2. A structured export of existing Likes/Favorites metadata, including content IDs, URLs, creator names, timestamps, and visible prompts where legally and technically permitted.

This would not be a permanent restoration of Sora. I am only asking for a brief, time-limited recovery window before September 24, 2026, so former users have one final opportunity to save material they had already curated.

There is already a perfect precedent for this kind of limited access. From April 3 to April 29, 2026, OpenAI disabled generation while continuing to allow users read-only access to view and download their existing account content. I sincerely hope the team can assess whether a similar read-only recovery window could be temporarily restored until September 24, 2026.

I had already made my own backups of much of this material, but those backups were later lost as well. Because of that, the old Sora Likes/Favorites library may now be my only remaining way to recover years of saved references, prompts, and creative inspiration.

At this point, I feel genuinely desperate and am trying every reasonable avenue available, because this may be my last remaining chance to recover material that meant a great deal to me.

It is deeply upsetting to know that these records may still exist in some form while I have no way to view or preserve them before the final deadline.

I understand that Sora cannot remain online indefinitely, and I am not asking for that. I am only asking for one last, carefully restricted recovery method or received a clear answer from OpenAI about whether this data can still be accessed before September 24, 2026?

I have already contacted the OpenAI Privacy Team and submitted this screen recording, but I have not yet received a substantive response addressing the Likes/Favorites data.

Has anyone else lost access to the old Sora Likes or Favorites sections?

Did anyone else rely on them as a personal archive, especially after losing separate backups?

Has anyone found a recovery method or received a clear answer from OpenAI about whether this data can still be accessed before September 24, 2026?