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They're giving everyone their next hit.

What I read on social media about people and these resets gives off literal worst kind of addiction vibes. I've literally seen people talking about "Oh I had an existential crisis without Fable/GPT-5.6"

These people legitimately need help, or alternatively a social life.

Maybe its different on my end because I just use a sub outside of work for fun stuff. At work its not my money so I don't really care. I go to work, maybe use these subs at home every once in a while for a fun personal project and if I hit the limits (I rarely even do) I play video games or hang out with my wife/family.

People are borderline tying their identities to these models it seems, and yet most people aren't even building anything interesting.

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Definitely, although there is a massive sampling bias: the minority of people who are in that state are also much more likely to post about it online.

Most likely (hopefully) 99% of users aren't like that and they'll just log off if quotas get slashed

I think yo umean people who are dependent on an AI agent system to do their work have nothing else to do when they go down.

It's really hard to blame the druggies when there's multinational billion dollar companies manufacturing the drugs.

But alas, we're in the grift economy, so the marks are to blame for falling for the fraud.

> They're giving everyone their next hit.

Yes, 100%. The author seems to be describing, quite lucidly, how he is getting sucked into a gambling-like addiction to these LLMs… although he seems unaware of the implications of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961596

it's not just gambling, its gambling + drug addiction. It's hitting two different human frailties: the need to get one more token and the inability to figure out what that token is yourself.

Drugs reduce the short to long term intellectual capabilities while gambling drains your bank acount.

So, lets be clear: this is so much worse than either drugs or gambling addictions. It's both.

I have a $20 Claude sub, and the closest I've come to hitting a limit was when I was using it to fight back against some scammers spreading a stealer on discord. I was having Claude decode their webhook strings, and the first time I blew them up with pings to get a job, then just started deleting the hooks from under them when they published new versions.

But for standard productivity, I've never come remotely close to hitting a limit.

Same here, and - while not trying to troll - the people I know who loudly proclaim how they keep hitting their limits are the ones who also seem to be blindly trying things through trial and error. A lot of wheel spinning, etc.

> They're giving everyone their next hit.

More like trying to prevent people from moving off of them.

The only people that these companies are really trying to limit are the tokenmaxxers on flat rate plans and enterprises on flat rate plans that are cheating and should be on the API plan.

For everybody else, it's way better to reset their quotas if you have the capacity. If you cut someone off, they're likely to either associate your brand with being unreliable or go try a different tool. Both outcomes are going to cost you money.

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