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Muse Spark 1.3 inside Codex Desktop
After running out of quota on two Codex subscriptions, found it was almost trivially easy to run Muse Spark 1.3 in Codex Desktop; not as good as Astra, but cheap and it one-shots most of his prompts.
PSA: It's really easy to swap models in Codex Desktop when you run out of quota.
Hello fellow token hungry degens, Like many of you, I ran out of quota on both of my 20x OpenAI Codex subscriptions and I had to go looking for alternatives (seems like an unforced error/misplay on their part to me - as a user I should be happy in their ecosystem and not go looking for alternatives because their credit pricing is insane). I wasn't able to get good information online ahead of time, but it turns out that it is almost trivially easy to get Muse Spark 1.3 running in Codex Desktop instead. It is not as good at Astra and it is not as well-integrated with Codex Desktop, but you don't need to buy a membership and the tokens are cheap as hell and it still one-shots most of my prompts. The one annoying thing is that if you want to use OpenAI models, you have to switch your up your config.toml. Probably someone has hacked around this already, I'm still early in my exploration.
