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May 13, 2026
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When Intelligence Becomes Abundant
By Cristiano Pierry
A tenfold Codex quota increase changed my behavior: I stopped rationing the model and started testing where delegation was actually useful.
I recently had my OpenAI Codex usage quota increased by ten times, and it changed the way I work.
I could use the highest-capability modes across coding, research, planning, analysis, and the small tasks that usually slow down a day. The important change was not that every task needed the strongest model. It was that I stopped spending as much attention deciding whether an experiment was worth the tokens.
The question shifted from “Is this worth the quota?” to “What would I delegate if this capability were reliably available?”
That made some work easier to automate and gave me more opportunities to test where the model genuinely helped. It also made the weak uses easier to see. Abundant access does not remove the need to choose the right task, review the output, or decide where my own judgment matters.
The quota increase did not make intelligence abundant in any universal sense. It gave me a small, practical experience of what changes when I no longer have to ration every attempt.
This writing reflects my personal perspectives on product management, AI, and content discovery. It does not represent the official position of my employer or any affiliated organization.