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1. Gareth321 · 1790064431 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   1. unsupp0rted · 1790065693 · focus · HN ↗

      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.

      1. dangoodmanUT · 1790079915 · focus · HN ↗

         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

         1. ralusek · 1790108975 · focus · HN ↗

            are you new to the $200/mo plan? I noticed that on a new account I was getting much more usage

            1. radio879 · 1790198604 · focus · HN ↗

               i am on just the $20 plan and I am using it literally almost all day, 2-3 different projects at the same time, and I am failing to run out! I am naturally always trying to be efficient, its a weird personality trait I have, where I don't try to but I willingly choose to use GPT-6-Luna most of the time now (well 5.6 before that) More Sol lately and for most tasks.. they seem to have the same output, its only super hard things where I kick it up to Astra.

               I am so used to doing planning with the best models and switching to Luna, Deepseek 4.1 Flash (really, the cheapest model, and often much better results for lots of things) really people are limiting themselves when they only use one company's models. You really gain a TON by treating each one more like different people with diverse range of personalities, passions, skills, and knowledge.

               Today, ChatGPT desktop app was tasked with making 7 variations of new versions of some existing websites of mine - and they all kinda looked the same. I did get lazy with it though.... I can solve that probably, with skills/changing the default frontend skills but also just sending the same task to Reasonix Code w/ deepseek, and some other models, gets some good wide range of outputs.

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