OpenAI usage limits have been severely cut, and intelligence appears to be markedly declining, so I'm going to start trying these Chinese models seriously now. I don't mind if it takes longer. I just need the intelligence to predictably work the same way from day to day.

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unsupp0rted 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same- I pay $200/mo for Codex but whereas I used to get a week's work out of a weekly limit, now I get roughly 1~2 days.

I've stopped using Astra entirely and remain on Sol orchestrating Luna Xhigh, but it's still not nearly a week's usage for a week's allotment.

And even then, whenever a new model is about to come out, it feels like the model I'm using is being dumbed down substantially.

I have no evidence for this and can have no evidence for this, but I can vote with my wallet regardless.

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dangoodmanUT 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

see that's interesting, because I'm prompting all day and I usually end up with 15-25% by the end of the week. I'm using Astra xhigh exclusively

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Gareth321 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I strongly agree. Check out the Codex subreddit. Many empirical examples of Astra silently downgrading the models. One found Astra was silently using Luna Max (but still billing for Astra).

Even when I try to stick with Sol X/High, my limits are at best half of what they were before Astra launched, and the intelligence has declined markedly.

I cancelled my $100 plan. This is absolutely absurd and frankly unusable now.

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Muromec 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It feels bizarre reading about the amounts spent on it here and paying like 10 eurobucks a week for DS

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christophilus an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My spending with Deepseek was more than a Codex subscription, though. How are you keeping it to $10/month? Super light usage?

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f6v 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me, DS Pro is still behind Sol. But I do think many people hitting the Codex limits in 1 or 2 days are doing something wrong.

	▲	sjbzbeiks 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Entirely depends on the work asked and the repo involved. When I’m doing work on a repo where I’m implementing a standard and the agents have to read the standard to keep from hallucinating my usage skyrockets. Hell this changes depending on which language I’m working with.

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Gareth321 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

These tools were pretty great if you could afford them, but now they are expensive and shit, and that combination doesn't work.

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loloisi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sol 5.6 xhigh had been a very reliable workhorse for coding for me via the 200 bucks sub.

But this week they seem to have tweaked the system to a point at which all models (Astra, Sol, Luna) hit rate limits all_the_time without me being anywhere close to the weekly limit.

Early results with MiMo 2.6pro are quite encouraging for anything that's non-UI work so likely switching spend for the time being

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phoghed 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> and intelligence appears to be markedly declining

Serious question: does anyone have evidence of this?

It’s something that’s constantly asserted, and has been since 2023. Every time someone posts a site that tries to track this though, I look at it and it’s just a flat line.

	▲	conception 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://marginlab.ai/trackers/codex/ By and large they don’t. I have seen this drop a few times, eg before fable came out opus dropped a lot probably due to less compute available. My guess is it’s a combination of getting used to the new cliff models fall off on and forgetting that model performance drops significantly when context fills up. So new model comes out, people try it and it’s amazing on a task or two. Then they start using it, context window fills up and it gets a lot worse.