OpenAI's December chat limits could cost it its biggest B2C advantage
Vivid_Employer_2806 · reddit · 2026-11-02
A long-time ChatGPT user argues OpenAI's December conversation limits abandon its biggest differentiator and risk permanently losing users.
- Paying users are mostly developers and professionals; OpenAI never surpassed Anthropic at coding, and Codex fell behind again after Opus
- Limits will start generous then tighten—the familiar pattern—pushing users toward competitors and local models
- Bigger claim: smarter models no longer satisfy users; the industry needs much cheaper inference on GPUs, or the business model breaks, especially if NVIDIA raises prices
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