Codex user finds astra-light just as good for design tweaks, way faster
enggirlfriend · x · 2026-11-07
A developer shares that after lazily staying on Codex's astra-light tier instead of toggling to astra-high, it handled her design-tweaking tasks just as well while being noticeably faster—suggesting task-matched model tiers beat defaulting to the top tier.
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