One lint fix burned 50M tokens: agent plugin nukes Codex Pro quota in 12 hours
generativist · x · 2026-11-15
Developer @itsnotreal reported that after the Fable plugin misbehaved, it burned 75% of a Codex Pro 500 plan's quota in 12 hours — usage that previously felt nearly infinite. A screenshot shows a single round cost 50 million tokens to fix one lint line and re-run review and pre-land: the fixed cost per round is huge no matter how small the change.
Plugin author generativist explains the workflow: a Claude Code plugin that routes Codex models in dynamic pipelines — Opus writes the spec, Codex-class models implement — which mostly eliminates gold plating and stretches both subscriptions further. A cautionary data point on quota burn when composing multi-agent workflows.
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