Are Codex users even a drop in the bucket of overall use? I mean, it's a pretty specific way to interact with the bot.

Codex usage is clearly common enough to have entered the vernacular of folks here on HN.

But we aren't everyone, and it seems likely to me that there's a lot more people in the world burning tokens using ChatGPT than there are who even know what Codex is.

> can't sustain these resets

If I would have my tin foil hat on I'd say they can manipulate how the subscription usage gets calculate during the week, so that these resets don't cost them much or anything. Sometimes it feels like the usage just disappears with nothing to show for it.

> OpenAI obviously is doing it to gain mindshare but they're burning money before their IPO and can't sustain these resets.

We don’t know that. If they have already paid for the hardware and it is not running 100%, and customers would not pay to get reset, they don’t really lose money.

I personally believe that they are buying time until they can make current gov. to bring-in a legislation that targets Chinese models one way or the other.

And now Kimi-K3 has caused a new Deepseek moment.. but this time, the only horizon that was still untouched: frontier performance.

Expect escalation of things from now on.

They also got a lot of goodwill by letting people use codex subscription in any harness they want, anywhere they want

I think it's mostly to spread hype for the new models. Sol can be ridiculously long running, even without /goal so it can run for 12hr+ on a problem with defined and verifiable output. So it's a good way for people to get hyped about the capabilities without worrying about usage limits.

It's a pretty smart move. If they weren't doing this, I would have simply switched back to DeepSeek, Mimo, GLM, etc. (and maybe K3) whenever I hit my usage limits, as was my normal custom.

They're performing the resets when the cluster load goes down and they have sufficient capacity to handle the reset.