This reminds me of the early days of cell phones. Limits everywhere and you paid for it by the kilobyte. Think at one point I was paying 45c per text message. I hope this gets better and we do not need gigawatt datacenters to do this stuff.
replyWe're in the process of building new gigawatt datacenters for the sole purpose of doing this stuff. If we end up not needing them, there's gonna be a whole lot of capacity sitting around soaking up ongoing maintenance costs.
replyFor ex. of the five new data centers being planned in Wisconsin, the two I know of that have public energy consumption estimates will need more electricity than all of the residential electric usage in Wisconsin combined at 3.9 gigawatts.
https://www.wpr.org/news/data-centers-could-cost-wisconsins-...
Yeah, I've been juggling some patches to opencode to help me see where my codex usage limits are at. As of a month ago, that information was not visible on the ChatGPT web UI.
replyYou just work till suddenly the AI dumps you out, and sit there wondering how many hours or days you have to wait. It's incredible that this experience is at all ok, is accepted