AI coding didn't free developers—they now plan life around rate limit resets

bendee983 · x · 2026-10-02

A developer rants that AI coding was supposed to free up time for a life outside the terminal—yet now devs structure their entire existence around the random rate-limit resets doled out by OpenAI and Anthropic. The quoted post is even more pointed: made weekend plans? Cancel them, because a Codex rate limit reset is expiring, and unspent credits are wasted credits.

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