RL professor burns through Codex tokens preparing class, hits capacity limits

CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-20

Reinforcement learning researcher Csaba Szepesvári reports that while preparing a graduate class he exhausted his AI coding tool's token quota and was told to wait for a reset or pay up, after also hitting a "model at capacity" message pointing him to Codex. A first-hand look at how quota and capacity limits affect heavy users of mainstream coding assistants.

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