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- 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?by dgellow
- 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.
by F7F7F7 - I left Claude because of this. I guess now I need to move on from OpenAI alsoby datakan
- But where will you go?by wobbat
- It will get worse!
Tighter limits, forcing people to higher plans. Most will go as they are addicted and dependent on those tools. They need to use to finish the project they started as no human will touch that pile of code. If you didn't saw this coming, as it has been the standard business strategy from all kinds of SaaS in the last years, you haven't been paying attention.
by harrisoned - There are solid, cheap options like xAI, z.AI, MiniMax, Kimi, DeepSeek, and Alibaba. Heck, I can run a coding agent on my 32GB MacBook Pro M1 right now and it's actually pretty good (just slow). No one is forced to keep paying OpenAI and Anthropic. That's their major strategic risk: distilled models are far cheaper to build and run and they're only a few months behind.by Gareth321
- This sucks, but really the value of the $20 plan has been insane. I routinely get weeks of work out of the weekly limit, so yeah I'll just move up plans if needed.by benmorris
- 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.by danielpassy
- Aren’t you better using other services than OpenAI if the price matters to you?by dgellow
- There are many providers and harnesses. You could go almost 90% of the frontier models for the fraction of the price. You have 3 more free days of ox alpha.
Geofencing has been quite good at creating feeling of being ripped off in the developed countries - from which the bulk of the companies revenue come from - that companies seems to be dropping it lately.
Anyway - China's advances seems to have caught the big 2 unprepared, so price war seems to be going on.
And there are Chinese resellers for frontier models if you are desperate for high end frontier tokens.
by ReptileMan - 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 onesby estebarb
- 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.by LetMeLogin
- by OsrsNeedsf2P
- The reset cadence is absurd.by rfgplk
- So we must move to 5 hour working days. Thanks OpenAI!by flimflamm
- Lets normalize working 5 hours a day. :)by cute_boi
- 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)
by pzo - 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.
by LaurensBER - > Given that it's not possible to buy the USD 100,- or USD 200,- subscription on a team/corporate planby rob
- Based on the ads flooding me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and anywhere else I see ads, Cursor is really going after this market right now.by trollbridge
- Premium seats are coming soon.by evandena
- > 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.
by fau - 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.
- It feels like daily quests in MMOs, trying to force user engagement via cultivating addiction-style behavior patternsby GolfPopper
- 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.by bootlooped
- "During this period, the company also reset users’ weekly usage early on several occasions to celebrate milestones"
Such a casino vibe.
by phyzome - 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
by bko - Yeah. I switched to codex 1.5 months ago to try it, and for some reason the "vibe" kept me here. It was really the unpredictable rewards from the constant resets though. I am not convinced it's a better product or that sol + any combination of luna is better than Claude.
I'll be switching back.
by mannanj - The vibe was people goofing around on Twitter. There's one guy making the call and the reset is kind of a meme.by bpodgursky
- also it sounds like users benefit but they mostly don't. resets mostly benefitted OpenAI and only gave users few additionals hours.by tom1337