18 comments

  • phyzome 42 minutes ago
    "During this period, the company also reset users’ weekly usage early on several occasions to celebrate milestones"

    Such a casino vibe.

    • bko 3 minutes ago
      I think it's great that oai resets users limits. What is this complaint?

      Free drinks? Keep customers happy? Reward your heaviest users? Casino vibes

    • vatsachak 17 minutes ago
      Hey I work in the casino industry and we have regulations!
    • F7F7F7 34 minutes ago
      Both OpenAI and Anthropic use a lot of casino/slot machine mechanics in their TUIs and Apps so likely intentional.
      • algoth1 5 minutes ago
        When there’s billions involved everything is intentional
      • TomJansen 27 minutes ago
        Do you have any examples of this? I am not sure if I understand what you mean
        • derwiki 23 minutes ago
          I think the whole nature of agentic programming is variable reward: kick off a bunch of prompts, obsessively check “which one nailed it??” Or at least I get a dopamine hit when the agents notifies me that it’s done with its turn.
    • tom1337 32 minutes ago
      also it sounds like users benefit but they mostly don't. resets mostly benefitted OpenAI and only gave users few additionals hours.
    • palmotea 15 minutes ago
      >> During this period, the company also reset users’ weekly usage early on several occasions to celebrate milestones, including adding another million active users across the two (now unified) platforms.

      > Such a casino vibe.

      No no no! It means we're all in it together! Feel the parasocial vibes!

    • bpodgursky 14 minutes ago
      The vibe was people goofing around on Twitter. There's one guy making the call and the reset is kind of a meme.
  • flimflamm 53 minutes ago
    So we must move to 5 hour working days. Thanks OpenAI!
    • pzo 16 minutes ago
      probably less - I sometimes manage to burn like most of my 5h credits on Claude 5x Max plan in 2h.

      The annoying things is that you gave bigger tasks and is such session finished maybe 70% and after 5h pool resets cache will expire so that if you "please continue" it will wipe out again a lot of your 5h pool)

  • fau 1 hour ago
    > This is necessary as (a) the 5h limit allows us to smoothen the load on our compute, allowing to keep the plan generous in terms of weekly usage

    Seems fair, but then maybe the 5h usage should also drain slower during off-peak hours? Perhaps it already does.

    > and (b) users on the Plus plan are relatively casual and new users, but then also just accidentally eat through their whole weeks usage and then are confused, making it not a great experience.

    Wouldn't this one be fixed by making the 5h limit a guardrail you can opt out of? If so, then this doesn't work as justification for a mandatory limit.

    • bootlooped 1 hour ago
      Also, I want to be able to eat through my whole week's usage at once. What if I was busy all week and want to work on my personal project(s) Saturday or Sunday.
    • cactusplant7374 1 hour ago
      There are no off-peak hours. I have received the model overloaded error that cancels my current goal during the early hours of the morning.
      • out_of_protocol 45 minutes ago
        > early hours of the morning

        which TZ?

        > There are no off-peak hours.

        Probably US west coast hours, but there's no public stats

  • LaurensBER 1 hour ago
    Given that it's not possible to buy the USD 100,- or USD 200,- subscription on a team/corporate plan this effectively introduces the 5h limits again for all corporate users.

    At this point the 40 USD/120 USD Cursor Team subscription suddenly becomes a lot more attractive. You'll get more generous limits and a single monthly limit.

    • evandena 56 minutes ago
    • rob 58 minutes ago
      > Given that it's not possible to buy the USD 100,- or USD 200,- subscription on a team/corporate plan

      https://openai.com/index/premium-seats-chatgpt-business/

    • trollbridge 1 hour ago
      Based on the ads flooding me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and anywhere else I see ads, Cursor is really going after this market right now.
      • stavros 1 hour ago
        I'm curious about why you see ads, I didn't think anyone on HN does, nowadays. Given how easy it is to install uBlock, is it a conscious decision to browse adfully?
        • rob 56 minutes ago
          Why not? I owe my life to ads. Thank you Google AdSense and Yahoo! Ads for the hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid for 16 year old Rob to slap them on his MySpace layout website in 2006 so Timmy could put a glitter graphic of Stone Cold Steve Austin on his banner.
        • walthamstow 55 minutes ago
          I don't think that many people here voluntarily go on Facebook either
          • dgellow 52 minutes ago
            I’m still shocked to hear that people go on LinkedIn
            • phyzome 40 minutes ago
              LinkedIn has a couple of useful features: Getting in touch with former coworkers; seeing who might know the hiring manager for a position you're applying for; uh... that's about it.

              The rest is garbage but I guess is how they make their money.

            • emkoko 32 minutes ago
              yeah do yall go on linkedin for anything legitimate??
  • LetMeLogin 46 minutes ago
    I really don't mind blowing my weekly usage in one day, but getting my tasks stopped and waiting for 5h cap to finish - is just annoying.
  • datakan 21 minutes ago
    I left Claude because of this. I guess now I need to move on from OpenAI also
    • wobbat 3 minutes ago
      But where will you go?
  • OsrsNeedsf2P 1 hour ago
  • F7F7F7 19 minutes ago
    I see this as evidence that last weeks token burn rate wasn’t by accident or due to some “bug.”

    I don’t mind the 5 hour window but this is a reminder to not hinge your workflows on any one tool.

  • danielpassy 1 hour ago
    This is such a bummer for those of us living in third world countries. I’m not a casual user, I just can’t afford to pay more.
    • estebarb 29 minutes ago
      Personally I have been using Deepseek V4 flash and it is enough for my needs. You can use OpenCode Zen/Go and also get access to many other models, including OpenAI ones. Writing purpose specific agents can make cheaper models close the intelligence gap with the most expensive ones
    • dgellow 51 minutes ago
      Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?
      • danielpassy 42 minutes ago
        I’ve tried Claude Code and recently switched to Codex. I’ve found that $20 on Codex gets me 4–5 times more usage than on Claude Code.

        I could burn through my Opus usage in 1 hour whereas with Sol, I can go 3–4 days.

        • F7F7F7 31 minutes ago
          Oolama? That plan is more than generous for $20.
          • LUmBULtERA 24 minutes ago
            How is that the case? ChatGPT not only gives a lot of Codex/Agentic usage, once you've run out of that you still have a massive quota of Chat usage that's entirely separate. You can still use plug-ins with Github, Google Drive, etc... using the Chat usage as well.
      • usef- 44 minutes ago
        You might be thinking of API pricing? The subscriptions give you a lot.
        • dgellow 32 minutes ago
          Oh right, thanks for catching that
  • dgellow 50 minutes ago
    I’m not a user myself but find it not great for your customers to announce such a change for the next day. Cannot they announce a few days in advance?
  • janilowski 12 minutes ago
    Tragic day in AI.
    • datakan 9 minutes ago
      The most transformative technology ever created! Brought to you in 5 hour increments..... maybe
  • sowrabh 56 minutes ago
    I can understand Plus to some extent but why would Work users be considered casual or new?
  • tarr11 1 hour ago
    No point in using /fast mode if you are gonna get stopped after 5 hours.
  • BrucecarlL 43 minutes ago
    Please don’t! Don’t limit my daily usage
  • honestlyranked 1 hour ago
    I say its good because you can atleast have a break in between sessions
    • somenameforme 42 minutes ago
      Haha. I've been pretty happy using similar limits on Claude precisely for this. It provides a really nice work:life balance without that nagging feeling that I should really get a few more hours in.
  • q8zd3 33 minutes ago
    Imagine paying for this shit..
  • hno8a34nwn 53 minutes ago
    Honestly didn't expect that
  • jobuildsstuff 31 minutes ago
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