Codex CLI 0.163.0 on macOS 27 may fail to push on the local network with ssh: connect to host … Undefined error: 0, even when the hosts are reachable. On the same machine, Claude Code succeeds in pushing.
Tagged ChatGPT
OpenAI Can’t Read Its Own Meter, Free Reset with Caveats Pt. 3
After my second case closed without notice, I opened a third on October 1. On October 4, after what it called a review of the full history, Support wrote that “the available Support records do not establish a definitive product rule” for how an active Pro weekly Codex window meets a downgrade to Plus. No refund, no credit, no reset. OpenAI has no measure for its own meter, and in place of an answer, its support suggested I spend a reset I didn’t have.
OpenAI Closes Case Without Notice, Free Reset with Caveats Pt. 2
My first query got a possible bot response with the promise of escalation to a human representative. I suspect I was put in front of another AI agent, likely running a higher model. OpenAI left that vague. After five days of silence, I decided to open a new case.
OpenAI Can’t Explain Zero Quota, Free Reset with Caveats Pt. 1
I downgraded my ChatGPT plan from Pro to Plus on September 16. The morning the $20 charge went through, my weekly Codex allowance read 0%. It stayed there for the better part of a week. Even OpenAI does not know what happens to an account when a reset and a billing date collide. Their own support admits it.
Is GPT Losing High Ground?
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, only a week after GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says it “delivers near-Astra performance at a lower cost”, at a fifth of Astra’s list price, and some on Reddit even go so far as to call it Astra minor. Cost-effective Astra-level performance is great news. But GPT’s sweet spot is increasingly the lower bound, and OpenAI is no longer competing at the flagship level.
Big Surprise Week from Claude and Codex: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and Luna
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, the same day OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna. OpenAI is making its lower-end models cheaper, while Anthropic is still pushing upward. On price to performance, Opus 5.5 now beats Fable 5.1, which makes one wonder who would still use Fable.
App to Track Codex Limit Resets
It is a story as old as time. I am waiting for a Codex reset. My usage is drained to 0% and stays there until next week, unless the customer representative on my case resolves the issue first. I will probably do a more in-depth write-up once I hear back.
Streamlining Analytics, Migrating with AI Pt. 5
Post-migration, I knew some jobs were left untouched. Not because of the amount of work involved — again, I don’t think the workload has meaningfully increased. For the first project afterward, I wanted to focus on a part of the website I hadn’t touched in a while: analytics.
To Self-Host or Not To Self-Host, Migrating with AI Pt. 4
No doubt the idea of complete control of a blog at $10 a year would be appealing for many. And no doubt many would share the same concerns as I do. During the planning phase, some of the definitive downgrades I was able to come to terms with, some of the regained controls I was able to make use of, and the saved cost I was ready to file under an existing list of subscriptions. I believe there are three major concerns most bloggers may have: uptime, support, and technical debt to AI.
The Part Where I Pay, Migrating with AI Pt. 3
The plan finished baking. Reviewed, revised, the whole nine yards. I wasn’t going to execute the plan myself; I wanted to automate it as well. The only decision left was how.
App to Organize Coding Agent Output
As much as I rely on Claude Code while managing home lab and writing code for DIY projects, coding agents never meet the media’s perception of AI: “slaves to logic” as I, Robot has put it. Agents hallucinate, make mistakes and take them back, and more often than not, their output is a wall of text that is completely out of order. For Claude, the recent models print more than their predecessors.
Fable 5 Now Included in Max Subscription
Fable 5 saga is finally coming to an end with Anthropic deciding to include the flagship model in Max. Since I am on Max tier for this month temporarily, the announcement is disappointing in two ways: a. Fable won’t be available on a similar price tier as GPT 5.6 Sol, and b. Fable is simply too inefficient when it comes to token counts compared to Sol. Whichever way you cut it, you can get a better deal from Codex.
Ads on ChatGPT
As a home baker, one of the most frequent accusations thrown at content creators I see — gadget reviewers, recipe authors, or just plainly writing about baking experiences — is their transparency: ties to the manufacturer, ties to the brands, ties to the producers, and so on. It boils down to a simple question — whether or not the content was sponsored behind the scenes. Those were the problems we had with human content creators with legal liability, not AI giants with an army of lawyers.
App Review Guidelines, AI Apps, and App Spamming
It has been nearly a year since I wrote about app spamming, in particular, ChatGPT-like apps. Many of them simply used ChatGPT and charged extra to the end users who didn’t know it wasn’t from the official developer. Their icons were often nearly identical to OpenAI’s, and dare I say, deliberately designed to be confused with the original.
Apple Intelligence, AI Subscriptions, and AI Store
After the whole debacle I had with Zadok the Priest on the previous post, I received some spams suggesting I should subscribe to their pro or plus models. I take it my search had used up most of free queries I had for the day. As far as I know, neither Google nor OpenAI openly publish the limit of their respective free tiers. From the literature I could find, it appears both companies have no fixed plan for free tier. For those of us who wish to cut subscriptions, having one less pricing info makes it untenable to plan a…