Codex Rate Limits Discussion Thread
OpenAI Developer Community
May 20, 2026
Agreed. It’s extremely clear that the rate limits are (for us) arbitrary. A percentage of a moving target.
OpenAI currently has the most generous rate limits for cloud coding harnesses, but I think (by design?) that hiding the actual token usage is pushing people into unreasonable usage patterns.
Needless to say, I think the only predictable pattern is a continuous decline, making credit purchases more appealing. Consumers/hobbyists were a stepping stone.
tomasreichmann:
> For the first time, moving more of this workflow to local models like Qwen actually starts to make practical sense.
This is the wey. Start bootstrapping yer own harnesses and models before yeself is found trapped inside a rotting garden dug too deep to ever crawl out of
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