Burning a $100 Weekly Limit in One Prompt: The High Cost of Codex Testing
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-31
A developer exhausted their entire $100 weekly Codex limit in a single prompt that ran for about 10 hours while testing a test-driven development (TDD) workflow.
This illustrates that under current token pricing, over-relying on AI for complex, long-duration automated code iterations can incur extremely high costs.
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