> You're experiencing throttling. Use the API instead and pay per token.That was using pay per token.
> Write every prompt like a government work contract in which you're required to select the lowest bidder, so put guardrails everywhere.
That is what I was doing yesterday. Worked fantastically. Today, I do the very same thing and... Nope. Can't even stick to the simplest instructions that have been perfectly fine in the past.
> If you're using Opus-4.5 for code generation, then consider using GPT-5.2-Codex for review.
As mentioned, I tried using Opus, but it didn't even get the point of producing anything worth reviewing. I've had great luck with it before, but not today.
> Instruct the model to keep a detailed log in a file and, after a context compaction
No chance of getting anywhere close to needing compaction today. I had to abort long before that.
> Build a mental model for which models are good at which tasks.
See, like I mentioned before, I thought I had this figured out, but now today it has all gone out the window.
That was using pay per token.
> Write every prompt like a government work contract in which you're required to select the lowest bidder, so put guardrails everywhere.
That is what I was doing yesterday. Worked fantastically. Today, I do the very same thing and... Nope. Can't even stick to the simplest instructions that have been perfectly fine in the past.
> If you're using Opus-4.5 for code generation, then consider using GPT-5.2-Codex for review.
As mentioned, I tried using Opus, but it didn't even get the point of producing anything worth reviewing. I've had great luck with it before, but not today.
> Instruct the model to keep a detailed log in a file and, after a context compaction
No chance of getting anywhere close to needing compaction today. I had to abort long before that.
> Build a mental model for which models are good at which tasks.
See, like I mentioned before, I thought I had this figured out, but now today it has all gone out the window.