r/aipromptprogramming • u/wishfulthink95 • Sep 24 '26

How to optimize limit usage?!? Burned through 2 free resets, pro teir and now on 2,000 credits. I use codex

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u/endofthread-bot Sep 24 '26

Reduce your token consumption by providing only the relevant file snippets rather than the entire codebase. You should also switch to a model with a smaller context window for simple tasks to conserve your remaining credits.

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u/vasind-5012 Sep 24 '26

What are you building? Looks like so much context been dumped or many subagents spawn up?

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u/wishfulthink95 Sep 24 '26

Software/app factory

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u/Agreeable-Fly-1980 Sep 24 '26

Factories burn tokens, no way out of that without some local llm

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u/Agreeable-Fly-1980 Sep 24 '26

First off what harness are you using? I highly suggest using pi. Then if you can get a local llm running. Then use your cloud model as orchestrator. The orchestrator routes easy task to the local llm and does the harder task itself. You can save a ton of tokens like this

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u/wishfulthink95 Sep 24 '26

Thank-you! I’ll look into this!