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What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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Re: What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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Which is funny because I’ll take the free crack in this case lol. Am I addicted to this new workflow? No idea but there are many providers. I feel like I’m being given free VC money so yea, I’ll use it. My expectation is that this cash handout is going to stop soon, so take while the giving is good right? I should note that for my workflow /loop is eating the credits, so it’s basically no skin off my back. I just que…

Sounds exactly like the person who is about to find out they are addicted

Yup, or we'll find out there's nothing to fear for folks who are using this responsibly.

It seems a huge "the sky is falling" to think all LLM use is bad for fear of some "addiction" to me. Even many skeptics (eg Hashimoto) have come around to the idea of using LLMs.

One thing is clear in my mind. VCs are burning cash, and so if you have an LLM flow you find useful, take some free cash. The sky is not falling in this respect imo.

Which is not a defense of AI, to be clear. AI may very well be a big societal problem, but in this context i don't see Hashimoto/etc becoming heroin addicts like ya'll are so concerned about. It's just a fancy autocomplete. The fear seems a bit over hyped.

Re: What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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Which is funny because I’ll take the free crack in this case lol. Am I addicted to this new workflow? No idea but there are many providers. I feel like I’m being given free VC money so yea, I’ll use it. My expectation is that this cash handout is going to stop soon, so take while the giving is good right? I should note that for my workflow /loop is eating the credits, so it’s basically no skin off my back. I just que…

I can stop any time. I promise.

Stop, what, exactly? This is simply a new tool, not an AI girlfriend. We've had ML based autocomplete for 10 years now, why is it suddenly a new chicken-little for ya'll?

Re: What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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You're, almost like clockwork, responding to the wrong thing. Not contesting what's been made or what hasn't or what's possible or what's not. That's not the issue I'm bringing up. Just -- do well for yourself. Deflection aint it.

You accused me of "lies I'm telling myself" about the robustness of current LLMs and I take offense to that when I have hard evidence that it's not a lie I'm being manipulated by. That's not deflection and I'm not sure what else you think I should be responding to.

My comment about "lies" was NOT, I repeat, NOT about the robustness of current LLMs. Please reread my post and... please.. do well to yourself.

Re: What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

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They're giving everyone their next hit. What I read on social media about people and these resets gives off literal worst kind of addiction vibes. I've literally seen people talking about "Oh I had an existential crisis without Fable/GPT-5.6" These people legitimately need help, or alternatively a social life. Maybe its different on my end because I just use a sub outside of work for fun stuff. At work its not my mon…

> They're giving everyone their next hit. Yes, 100%. The author seems to be describing, quite lucidly, how he is getting sucked into a gambling-like addiction to these LLMs… although he seems unaware of the implications of that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961596

it's not just gambling, its gambling + drug addiction. It's hitting two different human frailties: the need to get one more token and the inability to figure out what that token is yourself.

Drugs reduce the short to long term intellectual capabilities while gambling drains your bank acount.

So, lets be clear: this is so much worse than either drugs or gambling addictions. It's both.

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