There's a weird 'token anxiety' you get on these platforms. And you basically don't know how much of this 'limit' you may consume at any time. And you actually don't even know what the 'limit' is or how it's calculated. So far, people have just assumed Anthropic will do the kind thing and give you more than you could ever use...

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sumtechguy 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This reminds me of the early days of cell phones. Limits everywhere and you paid for it by the kilobyte. Think at one point I was paying 45c per text message. I hope this gets better and we do not need gigawatt datacenters to do this stuff.

	▲	zdragnar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We're in the process of building new gigawatt datacenters for the sole purpose of doing this stuff. If we end up not needing them, there's gonna be a whole lot of capacity sitting around soaking up ongoing maintenance costs. For ex. of the five new data centers being planned in Wisconsin, the two I know of that have public energy consumption estimates will need more electricity than all of the residential electric usage in Wisconsin combined at 3.9 gigawatts. https://www.wpr.org/news/data-centers-could-cost-wisconsins-...

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jauntywundrkind 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, I've been juggling some patches to opencode to help me see where my codex usage limits are at. As of a month ago, that information was not visible on the ChatGPT web UI.

You just work till suddenly the AI dumps you out, and sit there wondering how many hours or days you have to wait. It's incredible that this experience is at all ok, is accepted