Elon Musk ranks third, he takes the first place, and an OpenAI engineer has topped X by resetting his account.

"People have poured out from the internet, stopping me on the street to ask for quota resets. I'm planning to print some small cards to hand out everywhere."

This is a post that Tibo, the OpenAI engineer in charge of Codex and ChatGPT products, just published on X.

A technical lead in charge of core products was treated like someone handing out food ration tickets the moment he stepped outside.

The comment section has turned into a ticket collection window

What does real, massive demand for quota look like?

Just take a look at the comment section and you will know.

A user named Saif said his Codex quota was just reset yesterday, and he has already used up 37% of it today. He pays $500 per month for the subscription.

At this rate, the usage cap is just a tight corset for heavy users, leaving them gasping for air the moment they put it on.

Another user named Nick is on the Pro x20 plan, turned on the Extra High mode, and only had 5 rounds of chat — then his quota ran out.

He directly hit the warning for maximum message length. Only 5 rounds, that's absolutely mind-blowing.

Some other users said that they only used the GPT-6.1 Sol high-intensity mode, and their quota was completely used up in roughly 10 hours.

The shortest comment came from Oikantik: "Need a reset, please, all my context is gone."

Some people in the comment section started giving Tibo ideas.

Some suggested placing an automatic reset vending machine at the entrance of OpenAI's headquarters; others said he should just bring a portable printer to print out QR codes, so people can scan them to get a reset card; others even predicted that scalpers would sooner or later resell these cards at the gate — "50 bucks for one reset, no negotiation".

All these jokes from users are essentially rooted in the fact that the quota is really far from enough.

Back in September, the launch of GPT-6 Astra stretched users' appetite to the extreme. The demand was so overwhelming that OpenAI directly suspended new subscriptions and upgrade access for the $200 Pro 20X tier.

Astra consumes quota at a speed roughly 2.5 times that of Sol.

Then there's the current usage pattern. Once an Agent starts running, it often works continuously for several hours. For heavy users, the quota is a core means of production.

Therefore, the more frequent the resets are, the tighter the quota is being restricted.

A top influencer made by a single reset button

This explains an even more absurd thing.

On October 18, Similarweb released the ranking of account page traffic share on the X platform for September.

The first place — @thsottiaux, which is Tibo. The second place is Fabrizio Romano, the football transfer expert. The third place is Elon Musk.

You read that right: an OpenAI engineer has more homepage visitors on X than Elon Musk.

Tibo certainly can't compare to Musk in terms of total follower count, but when it comes to how many people refresh his page every day to check if he has posted anything new, he already ranked second back in August, and took the top spot directly in September.

What everyone is waiting for is the quota reset.

The 28-day military order of the "Cyber Godfather"

Tibo's real name is Thibault Sottiaux. He joined OpenAI in 2024 after working at Google, where he got fed up with the bureaucracy of big tech companies and jumped to the more aggressive OpenAI.

He launched Codex to the public in 2025, and by 2026, he has taken charge of ChatGPT, Codex and the developer API, merging them into one super app.

His X account was only registered in August 2025, and by July this year, he had accumulated nearly 250,000 followers. Netizens have given him nicknames: "Cyber Godfather", "The God in charge of Codex quota".

There are even several unofficial websites dedicated to tracking his every move. tibogpt.com only answers one single question — "Has Tibo reset the quota?" The answer has long been displayed as "Probably".

tiboreset.com shows the reset probability and the 28-day challenge progress bar. didreset.com acts like an archive that stores every quota announcement he has posted one by one.

Statistics show that from last September to October this year, he has posted a total of 83 quota announcements, including 60 full resets and 12 reset card distributions.

But this ongoing story is not all full of fun, it also comes with a trust test.

Shortly after the DevDay in early October, many heavy users complained that their quota had shrunk and the model had slowed down, and skeptical voices began to appear in the comment section.

Tibo responded by putting forward a firm military order: within 28 days starting from October 5, the team will either release an improvement that is perceptible to most users, or conduct a full quota reset every single day. If he fails to do so, he will compensate users with extra quota.

The transcript for the first 13 days: 5 full resets, 1 reset card, and 7 improvements. The improvements include a 60% reduction in desktop disk usage, a drastic cut in "model at full capacity" errors, and context reuse between sub-agents to help users get more done with the same amount of quota.

By Day 14, the status displayed on tiboreset.com was "Waiting for Tibo" — the entire internet was lying in wait again.

Printing small cards is a joke, but it hits the nail on the head

Reset is only a painkiller, while the improvement of underlying capacity is the real core issue.

But the current reality is: the more powerful the model is, the more dependent users become on it, and the tighter the quota will be. The fact that Astra forced a suspension of new subscriptions just a few days after launch is the most direct manifestation of this cycle.

Token is the food ration ticket of the new era, and Tibo is exactly the person standing at the window handing out these ration tickets.

Half of the 28-day challenge is still left. What everyone is watching is not only whether there will be a reset today, but also the day when they finally don't have to beg him for a reset anymore.

Reference: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2111918768733753664

This article is from the WeChat official account "AI Era", author: ASI Revelation; editor: Solomon, published with authorization from 36Kr.