Micah

some tips on 5.6 sol: 1. remove old slop. try disabling certain community skills and plugins, especially bundles with 20+ skills. think of 5.6 sol like someone who just grew from senior to staff or senior staff level: prescriptive guidance that used to help becomes micromanagement and makes the work worse. you can always add back what clearly helps. 2. turn on codex memory in settings. give codex feedback on what you like and don’t like, and ask it to remember. 3. you probably don’t need ultra. i do 95% of my work on sol high, sometimes use sol extra high, and have only used sol ultra for a handful of sessions. start with high and only move *up* when you’re not happy with the result.

omg my longest goal in codex so far

Updates for Codex and ChatGPT Work users. No nerfing, only good stuff! - We have landed inference optimizations and are passing down savings to all the subscriptions for GPT-5.6 Sol. That should result in around 10% more usage on its own. - We noticed that by changing the context size limit in the product to 372k for GPT-5.6 Sol, up from 272k for GPT-5.5, it resulted in more usage being charged than intended. We have reverted to 272k and will work to roll back out to 372k in the days to come. You should notice that usage drains significantly less after this change. - To understand where the extra usage was coming from, we ran some experiments where reasoning efforts were changed (referred to as juice values under the hood) and have reverted this. - There is slightly more usage of multi-agent than intended in high and xhigh reasoning effort, we are fixing this going forward. Also fixing a small other thing we noticed with auto-review where we can be more efficient. And we continue to have the 5h limit temporarily not apply. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

OpenAI has reduced GPT-5.6 Sol's thinking budgets in an effort to make the model more efficient They essentially bumped everyone's reasoning down by 1... so if you were running Sol Extra High, you now have to set it to Max to get the same effort So we basically don't have Max reasoning anymore, how do you feel about these changes? 🤔

Did my Codex app break, or did they remove the 5 hour limit? 👀👀

How are you guys already using GPT-5.6 I'm impatient I need it now! I have so many data analysis prompts ready

Had to give the new voice model the classic test