> Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot.

That depends on your budget. To work within my pro plan's codex limits, I attach the codebase as a single file to various chat windows (GPT 5.2 Thinking - Heavy) and ask it to find bugs/plan a feature/etc. Then I copy the dense tasklist from chat to codex for implementation. This reduces the tokens that codex burns.

Also don't sleep on GPT 5.2 Pro. That model is a beast for planning.