I've been a hardcore claude-4-sonnet + Cursor fan for a long time, but in the last 2 months my usage went through the roof. I started with the basic Cursor subscription, then upgraded to pro, until I hit usage limits again. Then I started using my own Claude API key but I was still paying ~70$ / 5 days, which is not that sustainable for me. But since grok-code-fast-1 landed, I've been using it daily with Cursor and it's fantastic, fast and cheap (free so far). I've also been using GPT-5 lately through the official Codex VSCode extension, and it blows my mind. Last night I used gpt-5-medium to help me heavily refactor a react-native app, improved it's structure and overall performance, something that would've taken me at least 2 days. Now I'm testing out gpt-5-medium-codex, asked it to restructure the entire app routing, and it seems it makes a lot of tool calls, understands, executes commands, it's very organized. Overall my stack from now on is Cursor + grok-code-fast-1 for daily use, and Codex/GPT when I need the brainz. Worth noting that I abused gpt-5-medium all day long yesterday, and I never hit any kind of limit (I just used by ChatGPT Plus account), reason for which I thank the OpenAI team
GPT-5-Codex
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Re: GPT-5-Codex
#122I've been a hardcore claude-4-sonnet + Cursor fan for a long time, but in the last 2 months my usage went through the roof. I started with the basic Cursor subscription, then upgraded to pro, until I hit usage limits again. Then I started using my own Claude API key but I was still paying ~70$ / 5 days, which is not that sustainable for me. But since grok-code-fast-1 landed, I've been using it daily with Cursor and i…
What exactly did your work flow look like for the gpt-5-medium refactor you did?
I don't have a test like that on hand so I'm really curious what all you prompted the model, what it suggested, and how much your knowledge as a SWE enabled that workflow.
I'd like a more concrete understanding if the mind blowing nature is attainable for any average SWE, an average Joe that tinkers, or only a top decile engineer.
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#123First time I was able to install Codex with no NPM errors. Gonna give it a shot, seems a lot slower than Claude Code but I'm only using basic Pro with ChatGPT vs. Max 100.
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like the difference between finding what needs to be done, making a plan, and executing on it remains something to consider and be aware of. Claude Code has been a revelation and a bit of a let down the past 45 days. Some open acknowledgement would have been great, but in lieu of it, it seems it's best to hop on a new tool and make sure you learn how to prompt better and not rely on the model to read between u…
Anthropic acknowledged there were bugs that are now resolved, see their status page for latest info: https://status.anthropic.com/
The models themselves are responding differently to prior chat requests being run again.
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#125I’ve been using Claude Code ($20/month) for about two weeks now, and with one of the token usage monitors I can handle most of what I need. I also have the $20/month ChatGPT plan. I know I could try Codex CLI, but I’ve been hesitant since I’ve seen people suddenly hit the limit and get locked out for a week. The problem is that there’s no way to check usage. So I’m wondering if this update improves token usage management, or if there’s now a way to actually see our usage so we don’t end up tripping the limit without any warning.
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#126I've been a hardcore claude-4-sonnet + Cursor fan for a long time, but in the last 2 months my usage went through the roof. I started with the basic Cursor subscription, then upgraded to pro, until I hit usage limits again. Then I started using my own Claude API key but I was still paying ~70$ / 5 days, which is not that sustainable for me. But since grok-code-fast-1 landed, I've been using it daily with Cursor and i…
I also hit Cursor usage limits for the first time in a year. Hit limits on Claude, GPT, and then it started using Grok :)
I chose to turn on Cursor's pay per usage within the Pro plan (so I paid $25, $20+$5 usage, instead of upgrading to $60/m) in order to keep using Claude because it's faster than Grok
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#127I've been a hardcore claude-4-sonnet + Cursor fan for a long time, but in the last 2 months my usage went through the roof. I started with the basic Cursor subscription, then upgraded to pro, until I hit usage limits again. Then I started using my own Claude API key but I was still paying ~70$ / 5 days, which is not that sustainable for me. But since grok-code-fast-1 landed, I've been using it daily with Cursor and i…
I've landed on more or less the same. grok-code-fast-1 has been working well for most coding tasks. I use it in opencode (I guess it's free for some amount of time? Because I haven't added any grok keys ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#128Re: GPT-5-Codex
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The install errors out after following two basic install commands. This is poor code hygiene on the part of the authors. That's "not ready for primetime" in my book. npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c node ./lib/postinstall.js npm ERR! /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/…
Please tell me you are not running a NodeJS release that hasn't been supported for at least 3 years... Optional chaining was added in v14 (2020), and it sure looks like that is the issue here.
Brand new, clean install of npm.
Poor code + doc hygiene is the problem here.
Re: GPT-5-Codex
#130I thought i would give this AI assisted coding another go, so have subscribed to ChatGPT to try out this new codex, but it just seems soooooo slooooow.
I just don't see how this can be considered productive - I am waiting 20 minutes staring at it "thinking" while it does trivial tasks on a virtually bare repo. I guess for async agents its not such a big deal if they are slow as molasses, as you can run dozens of them, but you need a structured codebase for that - and i am already hours in and haven't even gotten a skeleton.
I have read through all the docs, watched the video. It would be so much quicker just to write this code myself. What am I doing wrong? Is it just super slow because they are over capacity or is this just the current state of the art?