With the higher GPT-5.5 pricing, I wasn’t sure if in practice it would matter, so I preemptively disabled /fast in Codex. Seems like a non-issue. I can’t get anywhere close to using half of my tokens. Whenever I check it’s at 80% or higher remaining.
I’m now back to running “high” and /fast for everything. If I think a problem is difficult, I’ll bump to “xhigh” and won’t think twice about it.
Michael Tsai quoted this from X:
I have a friend in apple.
He has over 200 dollars credit on claude everyday to spend.
I find this difficult to believe. Even though Claude Code is more stingy with tokens than Codex, $200/day seems outrageous. If this is even close to true, it’s no wonder Anthropic is making so much money. But the popular opinion about Claude might be a trailing narrative, before everyone notices how good GPT-5.5 is.
