Heavy Codex user: side chat is 90% of my chats, no wonder 20x plan dies in a day
JiaweiYang118 · x · 2026-09-11
Responding to claims that Codex's /side chat causes near-full cache misses, developer JiaweiYang118 says over 90% of his chats run through side chat — "no wonder I can burn through my 20x plan in a day" — and asks OpenAI staff whether this is a serious design choice.
Related event: Users Say Codex /side Chat Wipes Prompt Cache and Burns Tokens(3 posts)→
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