Watch this. Your perspective will change.
Most Indians believe Mahabharata happened.
But very few can prove it.
Chandru Ramesh can.
A former software engineer who gave up his corporate career to spend years travelling the world, collecting physical evidence, inscriptions, archaeological findings and over 300 data points backed by 1,000+ citations.
Mahabharata and Ramayana are not just stories we were told…
They are our History.
@thsottiaux
I am ready to share the data. It is ridiculous that I had just given a single prompt of reading and updating a document which is of just 800 lines and my usage just dropped to 80% from 100. Seriously, there is something wrong with the codex. Reset is not soultion
Update on the token quota issue @thsottiaux
I decided to run a controlled test using GPT-5.3 Codex Spark.
I started with 100% of my 5-hour Spark quota and 97% of my weekly Spark quota. I asked one question: "Audit the tokens I've used today."
The audit reported 679,010 total tokens, but 619,008 were cached input tokens. The actual new output was only a few thousand tokens.
After that single prompt:
• 5-hour Spark quota: 100% → 96%
• Weekly Spark quota: 97% → 95%
Something still doesn't add up.
I'm not claiming this is a bug. I'm asking for transparency. Right now, it's impossible to understand what is actually being counted toward our quotas.
This is incredible.
Sam Altman made the case for open-source harnesses in July.
a month later, someone shipped it, and it's more efficient than most managed harnesses.
here is the problem it was aimed at:
a large share of your agent's token bill is the model rereading things it already read.
that isn't the model's doing. the runtime around it decides what goes into every prompt and how often the model gets called.
for example, an agent queries a CRM at step four and gets back 400 rows. those rows get piled up in the conversation history.
by step nineteen, the model has to read those rows fifteen times unnecessarily, and every token read is billed at input rates.
it happened because your harness assembled that prompt on every turn and kept the rows in it.
that gives you two levers: how much context the harness carries forward, and how often it calls the model.
there are four practical ways to keep the prompt from growing unnecessarily:
→ load tool schemas on demand. a server with 100 tools doesn't need to put all 100 into every prompt when the agent only calls two.
→ offload large results to disk. turn a large response into a short preview and a file path instead of replaying the entire result on every turn.
→ delegate to subagents. let a subagent spend thirty tool calls in its own context and return one summary to the root agent.
→ run toolchains in code. one script calls three tools, joins the results, and returns a table instead of three turns each dragging a full response.
but reducing context is only half the job. you also need to control how often the model gets called.
a good harness should avoid unnecessary planning, verification, and reflection when the work can be completed in fewer steps.
@TrueFoundry's open-source agent harness, TrueForge, is built around both of those controls.
it sits between the model and the tools, deciding what goes into every prompt and when another model call is actually needed. it also breaks token usage down across the harness, skills, instructions, tools, and messages.
DevRev's Enterprise-Bench is where this gets tested, on multi-step tasks of the kind where an agent pulls records from one system and reconciles them against another.
TrueFoundry ran TrueForge there against Claude Managed Agents, both on the same model, and both finished the same number of tasks.
the tie is the part that matters, because it means the gap underneath is not a quality tradeoff.
TrueForge reached that score on close to a third of the tokens, with roughly 40% fewer trips back to the model. for the same result, that comes out around 2.7x cheaper than Claude Managed Agents.
swapping in an open model made it sharper still. TrueForge with GLM-5.2 scored a little higher than either setup above, and the entire benchmark run cost about $3 at list prices.
being open source matters beyond the license here. the model underneath can be swapped without rewriting the agent, and the whole thing can run inside your own environment when the data cannot leave it.
all of this comes down to the runtime around the model, the context it carries, the tools it exposes, and how many times it goes back to the model.
that is what a production harness actually owns.
the full task list, the per-run numbers, and the MIT-licensed code are on GitHub: https://t.co/Ueo1InZH7M
(don't forget to star 🌟)
you can read more about the same in the article quoted below.
thanks to the TrueForge team for working with me on this one.
This is actually wild.Codex usage has been draining way faster lately,
Same complex task:
Sol Ultra - 6 hours, 100% → 0%, didn’t finish
Sol Ultra (2nd account) - 5 hours, 100% → 10%, got stuck in a review loop
Fable 5 Ultracode - 3 hours, finished, used only 25%
I’ve done similar tasks with Codex before and never saw usage drain this badly until this week.
This's just my experience, Anyone else noticing this?
@jetfam@thsottiaux@thsottiaux i justed few md files for my architecture, in just one day i burned 70 percentage of usage. With 5.5 this isn't case. With $20 plan i used to get done atleast 4 of days
> "Have trapped seven school girls — two of them have already Kalma"
> "The moment our time comes, we will enter their (Hindu) homes and finish them."
> "Our aligiance is only with Ummah — our Pakistan."
> "Let our government come.. We will show you.."
YouTuber Fire Ninja exposes Indian Muslims' mindset with a quick social experiment on Independence Day.
Sarvam AI opened Voice Agents today, so I built a Hyderabadi sabzi aunty 😭
Called her and bargained in Hindi + Telugu + English, kept interrupting, switched languages mid-sentence, and she still remembered my order, gave me a final total, and even confirmed my (fake) UPI payment.
Took me ~15 mins to build.
It was fun to recreate the lost art of vegetable bargaining, but this time with an AI agent.