Been using Codex nonstop for the last 24 hours, so here's my first impression. I'm on the $200 Pro plan and it's honestly really generous. I worked with Astra the whole time and didn't even burn 10% of my limit. Yeah my usage wasn't heavy, no multiple sessions or multiple agents, but compared to a lot of subscriptions and for the level of intelligence Astra gives you, it's been great. Especially since I used it for research-heavy problem, not really coding. It's fun to work with and it actually corrects a lot of models and catches stuff even strong models miss. But it's still way behind Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 in design and taste overall. I spent a full hour trying to get GPT Astra to build one super simple page. Every fix broke something else. I used the best skills I know, the ones that usually work, and the design was still full of problems and mistakes it couldn't notice or even tell were mistakes. So it kept shipping with errors piling up. Even Chinese models like Kimi don't make mistakes like that in UI design. GPT models are hands down the worst at taste and UI design, and I don't think their next model changes that or gets on Claude's level. For this kind of work Claude, Fable or Opus, nails it on the first try with zero effort and blows me away, even without skills. But like I said I subscribed for specific things I need, including computer use. If it were about design and video editing, Codex would obviously be the wrong pick. For my use though it's good, and I'm really happy they improved the app. It used to eat tens of GBs of RAM and literally wreck my machine, and that's a new MacBook Pro M5 Pro. Now it's way smoother. Dot though is basically unusable, one of the worst out there. Sometimes I send it something, it disappears, then says it sent the reply and I got nothing. I'd take Hermes bot over it, it's clearly way more mature. What I like most is that at my current pace I feel like I can use it smoothly all week. Can't wait for the new Astra and the new Sol, I think they're dropping soon. And OpenAI usually ships new models on Thursdays, so we might be closer than we think. Not gonna lie, I have a lot of issues with OpenAI, but credit where it's due, the experience right now is better than ever. Full detailed review with all the pros and cons coming in the next few days.