Codex Agents Pile Up 76GB of Debug Files, Burning Through 5x Quota Overnight
craigbalding · x · 2026-09-17
The author reports his freshly purchased 5x ChatGPT quota hit 36% overnight, partly due to a disk-exhaustion outage caused by agents "keeping the evidence" — 76GB of Rust debug folders. To stretch quota until Tuesday's reset, he now runs Terra (medium) as main codex agent, Luna (xhigh) for coding subagents, and Sol (medium) as reviewer, which sharply lowered usage.
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