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Something is wrong with Codex since July 22

Users report a persistent, undocumented regression in OpenAI's Codex API causing infinite loops and doubled token consumption since July 22, linked to version 0.146 and the 'wait_agent_enabled' configuration setting.

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Reddit r/OpenAI

Aug 6, 2026

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Presentation: The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations - Where and Why Teams Get Stuck

Quotient CEO Lizzie Matusov introduces a five-stage AI maturity framework for engineering organizations to diagnose why high AI investment isn’t translating into improved software delivery, emphasizing organizational alignment and outcome-based metrics over token-centric vanity metrics.

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InfoQ AI / ML / Data Engineering

Aug 4, 2026

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A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

OpenAI has developed and open-sourced an agent harness that now underpins Codex and ChatGPT Work, with internal optimization efforts underway to reduce excessive token consumption.

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Techmeme

Jul 29, 2026

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Any guide for optimising token usage in codex/work?

A Reddit user on the r/OpenAI forum expresses frustration with token limits on their OpenAI Plus subscription while attempting AI-assisted CAD work, highlighting a real constraint in practical usage.

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Reddit r/OpenAI

Jul 27, 2026

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Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)

Chinese AI models now constitute approximately 60% of token usage by US companies on the OpenRouter API marketplace, creating practical constraints on US export controls or regulatory restrictions due to dependency risk.

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Techmeme

Jul 22, 2026

SPIN Processed News Frame: The Hype

Do we really need all the information that Frontier models give us?

A GitHub-hosted open-source tool called 'Sir Shortoken' claims to reduce LLM token consumption by filtering inputs to core concepts without lossy compression, tested on technical domains like APIs and Kubernetes.

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Reddit r/OpenAI

Jul 19, 2026

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10 Billion token usage in 20 days, (orange is claude) (Grey is Gpt)

A Reddit user shared an unattributed, unlabeled chart showing token usage metrics for Claude and GPT models over 20 days, with no source, methodology, or verification provided.

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Reddit r/OpenAI

Jul 14, 2026