Developers decry token rationing: building everything on AI now means waiting for quotas to reset
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-18
A viral post argues late 2026 will be remembered as the most excruciating period in AI progress, when OpenAI and Anthropic's usage limits leave developers 'over a barrel'. After architecting entire systems on top of AI during token abundance, the author finds serious work nearly impossible without frontier models — and warns of psychological dependency and system complexity. Replies joke about a coming 'token holodomor'.
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