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Re:You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents by Aurornis on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:17PM (#50374273)
> For comparison, let’s take two $20 subscriptions, one for GPT and one for Cursor. With gpt-6.1-sol, my 5-hour limit runs out after just a few requests. If I ask it to change a couple of lines in a readme file, that uses up 10% of the limit. If I ask it to change something in a large codebase, the entire limit gets used up just reading dozens of files, without writing a single line of code.

Either this is hyperbole or something is wrong. I tried 6.1 Sol for a significant chunk of non-critical work this week and did not encounter usage depletion like this. I ran several tests that went upward of 450K tokens without depleting the 5-hour window, though I didn’t pay attention to how much.

Either this person is exaggerating, or something is extremely wrong with their harness.

I’m equally confused that their solution was to switch to Luna and try to use the small and fast model for big coding tasks. They could have switched to Claude $20/month and had ample Opus usage right new.

Most of the complaints in this article could have been avoided by not using Luna and not using a configuration that’s blowing their quota out for unclear reasons.

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Re:You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents by brainless on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:22PM (#50374305)
It depends a lot on how projects a structured. Large monorepos may need a bunch of tool calling, particularly if the boundaries within different parts of the repo are blurred.
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Re:You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents by oarfish on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:38PM (#50388276)
I just switched from cursor to codex and had the same impression. One chat with a few messages and most of my usage was gone, and i only used Luna. And it would work for tens of minutes on tasks that would've taken 10x less in cursor. Obviously anecdotal and i feel like the latest update to the ChatGPT app improved it, but maybe some codebases or setups lead to this behavior. Or we are in some kind of A/B test.
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