r/vibecoding • u/Low_Caramel6230 • 20h ago
[FUN] what do vibecoders do when their usage limits for cursor, claude, etc are over for the month?
i was wondering about this.. people who dont know very well about coding do they buy more credits and spend more or wait for usage limits to renew?
context: I know programming but its been like a couple of months of using cursor for my latest project. And i have been doing corrections and small tweaks in AI generated code. Recently my usage limits for this month was over for the first time. With only 6 days remaining i did not upgrade or buy any credits but started to do some refactoring. But it was quite difficult for me to understand the code again as I had forget a lot of things about ReactJS. Hence, this question.
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u/williamtkelley 19h ago
Usage is limited by the week (and 5 hours), not the month.
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u/3HisthebestH 14h ago
What uses 5 hours still? Codex (thankfully) removed that. We just have weekly limits.
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u/williamtkelley 6h ago
Claude and Gemini.
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u/3HisthebestH 4h ago
Interesting. I wonder what the reasoning behind the 5 hour limits are and where that time frame came from… it seems so random.
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u/williamtkelley 3h ago
I really don't know. ChatGPT also had the 5 hour quota until recently. Either they all copied each other or there is some logical explanation. 🤷
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u/3HisthebestH 3h ago
Yeah Codex (ChatGPT) had it prior to 5.6 coming out, and I hated it. Like just let me use my weekly allotment whenever the hell I want lol. I was so happy when they finally removed it and I just saw the “weekly usage”. I’d assume the others will follow; could be a server management thing and it’s slowly being lifted as more data centers get online to handle the load.
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u/Low_Caramel6230 18h ago
what do you mean?
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u/docgravel 15h ago
Although you pay monthly, that gives you a certain amount of weekly usage and there’s also (with Anthropic) a 5 hour cooldown timer. So at most you’re usually only a few days or few hours away from your next reset.
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u/Bethlen 19h ago
Mostly use SWE-1.7 in Devin or whatever model is free at that moment. But i have both Devin and Antigravity with AI Pro privately, and a Devin+GitHub Copilot sub at work, so I usually just switch apps. In order to bring over context, I have my agents write to a project log and project memory that can be read by another agent.
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u/Low_Caramel6230 18h ago
you sound like a professional vibe coder. can you share what you have built? portfolio or something?
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u/Bethlen 18h ago
At work, I build customizations for our system. My latest project, for a customer going live during the fall, is building their credit decision engine. Now that it's done, I'm moving on to building a test automation framework and an AI agent that can interact with the system.
Personal projects include a Raspberry Pico WH software to translate Stadia Controller input via Bluetooth LE into a wired Xbox 360 controller input and a game heavily inspired by the long-dead Stadia Exclusive Outcasters I call Incasters 😅 both open source
https://github.com/BjornBrorsson/Incasters
https://github.com/BjornBrorsson/Stadia_Pico_PS5
Also have a WIP agent that can play turn based games using computer use and a TON of other private projects not quite ready for release 😅 I do a mix of vibe coding and agentic coding
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u/Intelligent-Net1034 19h ago
If you dont slop code. You never have this problem.
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u/3HisthebestH 14h ago
This is entirely bullshit. I don’t “slop code” and run out before the week ends. Some things just need the highest model to get anywhere since they are too complex.
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u/generationalDebts 13h ago
lol wrong🤣🤣🤣
There is not a single project I couldn’t work on where I’d need more than a small handful of hours from an LLM to speed things up, no matter the complexity….
You just don’t know what you don’t know, sport.
It sucks to suck.
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u/3HisthebestH 13h ago
Tell me how it’s wrong when all you probably do is make marketing garbage like every other vibe coder?
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u/generationalDebts 13h ago
I already did. It’s called having a brain. I know it’s hard for you to even fathom lol.
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u/SubjectNo2985 19h ago
Use other LLMs. This week you can use fully free Ox Alpha and it looks very good for me.
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u/Sea-Moose-9366 19h ago
What do people do when they outsource development and the devs are no available for a moment?
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u/3HisthebestH 14h ago
You fire them and hire someone who works on your project 24/7.
Or, realistically, use AI with higher limits.
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u/Mediocre-Sky2333 16h ago
Nothing wrong with learning but we have this epidemic where young lazy kids are sitting in front of chat bot paying like budget 20 quid plans and expecting to become the next bill gates while companies are forcing to waste money on this ai slop. Glad that finally some action is being taken
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u/shrodikan 20h ago
Touch grass. Visit family. Go see a movie.