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Re:What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets f... by sadfgknerknksdf on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:03AM (#48965905)
It's a weird thing to optimize for. If you care about availability for work you can just pay more where it feels limitless and never look at the limits. I think a lot of people have a tendency to want to minmax as a "game". I also occasionally have the urge to do it but then realize it's a means to an end, not the end itself. I would feel good having maximised usage even if it wasn't productive usage which is irrational.

I think the main problem is the usage limits. You would never feel like you are saving money by watching movies on Netflix. If they didn't have limits, many might find themselves using agents less actually.

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Re:What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets f... by SyneRyder on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:25AM (#48967546)
> If you care about availability for work you can just pay more where it feels limitless and never look at the limits...

Depending on your work, it doesn't feel limitless - I've just upgraded to a $200 plan and I'm starting to see where I will even hit the edges of that, especially once resets and special offers start tapering off. But with a single AI question often costing $75 in API costs, I'm not at a point where I can just switch to API and not care about cost at all.

That means I need to carefully time the work to make sure I'm squeezing what I can into the 5 hour windows. Feels a bit like the days of mainframes and time slicing, when you had to book an allotted time for your workload to run.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/earlyt...

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