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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post Tasha @TashaPais Article See new posts Conversation Karel @KarelDoostrlnck I spent $10,000 to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex 108 325 3.2K 1M I use billions of codex tokens. Here is my setup and is what I learned. Many people drastically underestimate what codex can do. Even some of my colleagues still underutilize codex, but they are eager to experiment once you show them some ambitious use-cases. Thus, I wanted to write something down and share it more broadly, in the hopes it inspires more people. In this post, I'll share my simple setup and discuss some killer use-cases, where I routinely allocate hundreds of millions of tokens. In total, I spent $10,000 on API costs this month, which makes me one of the most prolific users in my team. Totally worth it. Finally, I reflect on how I think organizations might

Karel @KarelDoostrlnck I spent $10,000 to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex 6:24 PM · Feb 5, 2026 1.2M Views 127 0 1 2 7 263 0 2 6 3 3.7K 0 3 . 7 K 6.8K 0 6 . 8 K Read 127 replies

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