Your AI Coding Assistant Is Rationing You—And You’re Paying Them for the Privilege
Your AI coding assistant isn’t a productivity tool—it’s a metered rationing system that halts your work the moment your quota hits zero. When a developer burned through his Claude quota in 10 minutes and built a tool to figure out why, the community revealed a deeper truth: we’ve become dependent on an external, metered crutch, and we’re paying for the privilege of being rationed.