OpenAI's Tibo tops X traffic as users beg for quota resets, plans to hand out reset cards
新智元 · wechat · 2026-10-19
Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux), the OpenAI engineer in charge of Codex and ChatGPT, posted that users are stopping him on the street asking for quota resets — he joked about printing reset cards to hand out.
Key points:
- Quotas are genuinely tight: a $500/month user burned 37% of Codex quota in one day; a Prox20 user hit the limit after five chats in ExtraHigh mode; GPT-6.1 Sol's high-intensity mode lasted about 10 hours;
- Top-of-X status: Similarweb's September data ranked Tibo's profile above Fabrizio Romano and Musk in page-visit share. His account, registered in Aug 2025, has 250K followers; fans run tracker sites (tibogpt.com, tiboreset.com, didreset.com). He has posted 83 quota announcements with 60 full resets;
- 28-day pledge: after DevDay complaints, Tibo promised daily visible improvements or full resets from Oct 5. First 13 days: 5 full resets, 1 reset card, 7 improvements (60% less desktop disk usage, fewer capacity errors, context reuse across subagents);
- The takeaway: stronger models mean tighter quotas — Astra's launch forced OpenAI to pause Pro subscriptions, and resets are painkillers while supply improvements are the real fix.
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