Developers Suspect Codex Cache Misses Are Draining Usage Quotas Faster Than Expected
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-21
Rohit Krishnan flagged that his Codex limits expire unusually fast, suspecting cache misses from long-running tasks that periodically "check in" — he estimates check-ins alone burned 20% of his daily quota, and asked Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux if anything can be done.
Seth Lazar corroborated: he hit 90% usage over a weekend doing little manual work, with most consumption coming from automations, and plans to move those to a different backend while agreeing "something awry."
A concrete billing-quotas complaint from paying users: long-running tasks and automations may be silently inflating Codex usage.
Related event: Codex Users Report Quota Burning Far Faster, Suspect Shrinkflation(5 posts)→
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