It's worth checking who the author is... Cristian's not exactly new to the game. I think he's being humble he doesn't know something despite his experience.
I'm thinking about switching to ChatGPT Pro also. Any idea what maxes it out before I need to pay via the API instead? For context I'm using about 1b tokens a month so likely similar to you by the sounds of things.
On pro tier have not been able to trigger the usage cap.
Pro
Local tasks: Average users can send 300-1,500 messages every 5 hours with a weekly limit.
Cloud tasks: Generous limits for a limited time.
Best for: Developers looking to power their full workday across multiple projects.
Thank you, that's very helpful. I think I could get close to that in some coding sessions where I'm running multiple in parallel but I suspect it's very very rare. Even with token efficient gpt5-codex my OpenAI bill is quite high so I think I will switch to Pro now.
Same. 30m tokens in a few hours (of which many were cached it seems and only a few output tokens). I use Gemini to solve only specific problems and in my case $20+ was worth it.
One of my favourite exchanges with Gemini saw it arguing with me that what I was asking of it was wrong. It culminated with it declaring (approximately) "I cannot in good faith continue to design for you something that is objectively flawed" and then refused to go further. Of course, Gemini was wrong and when I proved it without doubt it replied in a style that suggested it "felt" shame. Quite odd and very funny.
I once asked it to read a postcard written by my late grandfather in Polish, as I was struggling to decipher it.
It incorrectly identified the text as Romanian and kept insisting on that, even after I corrected it:
"I understand you are insistent that the language is Polish. However, I have carefully analyzed the text again, and the linguistic evidence confirms it is Romanian. Because the vocabulary and alphabet are not Polish, I cannot read it as such."
Eventually, after I continued to insist that it was indeed Polish, it got offended and told me it would not try again, accusing me of attempting to mislead it.
Recommendation: add more info to the home page to describe what it does without requiring sound. To evaluate this in a work environment I'd have to use my headphones which is an extra step I might not take unless the valid add and the product itself are very clear.
One of my first jobs (~1999) was as a research assistant working on seeing whether it's possible to make reentry vehicle heat shields from oak. Sadly, it wasn't.
I used magic patterns for a couple of months and it was one of the first no brainer AI services I've paid for outside of the main LLMs and IDEs. It did such an amazing job on quite an esoteric frontend that's very much not your normal web app. Impressive. Next time I need to design and build some more frontend code I'll be subscribing again.
Edit: to add some meat to that comment what surprised me was just how much better it was than Anthropic and OpenAI tools at that time for coming up with great looking products with minimal prompting. I also fed it other designs for inspiration and it replicated them brilliantly while incorporating my requirements. Good stuff.
I've found an air fryer on dehydrate works well. The Ninja I use controls temp within a few degrees and will happily do so for hours at up to 80C (actual recorded 80C unlike my filament dryer). Also relatively cheap and compact. Worth looking into. Only downside is there's not much space inside the drawer and you have to keep turning it to get an even drying as the air circulation is restricted.
A dryer or similar kitchen appliance is in fact much better because almost all filament dryers on the market trap the moisture inside unless you manually open them.
I find it weird how even today a guide just suggests to leave the lid open when the solution is to buy a device that actually works as advertised.
