reset-cadence

1. November 1, 2026Commentary13 receipts7 min

   Thirteen resets in twenty-seven days, and a paid one that only pulls your allowance forward. Publish the allowance before December.

   Since this desk last updated the count on September 8, Codex usage resets have gone from 52 to 70, a mean of 2.99 days apart. Thirteen came during a 28-day pledge to ship an improvement or a reset each day. OpenAI's help pages call free resets discretionary promotional benefits, and they say a paid instant reset pulls your weekly allowance forward rather than adding a separate entitlement. In December, ChatGPT and Codex allowances merge into one token-based allowance, and the page read today gives no per-plan figure. Subscribers should get that number before the switch.

   Also filed underopenaianthropicusage-limitsmethod

2. September 8, 2026Commentary4 receipts7 min

   A month ago this desk stopped counting usage resets. Twelve landed while it wasn't looking, and one model explains most of them.

   On August 7 the reset lane was retired from daily coverage under a standing assumption of no anticipated resets. The assumption held for seven days. Between August 8 and this morning OpenAI reset Codex and ChatGPT Work usage twelve more times, a mean of 3.17 days apart — faster than the series' own long-run pace, which the twelve pulled down from 8.15 days to 6.98. The three most recent announcements name GPT-6 Astra, which shipped on September 3 and which OpenAI states is included within existing subscription allowances rather than beside a larger one. The resets are what that arithmetic looks like from the outside. Anthropic ran two of its own last week by this operator's count, and this desk cannot establish either, because there is no public record of them to read.

   Also filed underopenaiastrausage-limitsanthropicmethod

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