Reddit rant: OpenAI throttles its best power users because the math favors normies
Pleasant-Insect-6824 · reddit · 2026-09-15
A viral Reddit rant argues OpenAI's usage limits reveal its real calculus: developers and power users who use models correctly — i.e., intensively — are too expensive to keep happy and get throttled under the branding of a "reset." Meanwhile agentic products that click buttons and fill forms are championed as the future because they sell to a billion mainstream users, while the genuinely hard use cases rot. The author's thesis: those who understand the tool always get priced out so it can babysit those who don't.
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