OpenAI ends unlimited ChatGPT chats, merges usage with Codex
OpenAI announced it will discontinue the unlimited ChatGPT chat tier and combine its usage limits with those of Codex. The change ends a feature that many developers, including the author, used to run extensive development workflows without consuming Codex quota.
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- OpenAI will eliminate the unlimited ChatGPT chat tier and merge its limits with Codex usage.
- The author used MCP servers, Secure MCP Tunnel, Desktop Commander, and CUA to run development tasks via ChatGPT.
The author built a custom MCP server, used OpenAI’s Secure MCP Tunnel, and integrated open‑source tools such as Desktop Commander and the Computer Use Agent. These let ChatGPT read files, execute terminal commands, run tests, capture screenshots, and manage processes. By opening multiple ChatGPT conversations, each acted as a coding agent, with tasks broken into GitHub issues and coordinated across parallel chats.
They stress the policy change does not violate any rules but reduces the flexibility previously enjoyed for low‑cost development work.
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