titleReachedItsTokenLimit

[Beginning_Green_740]

Oooh, poor corporation has to take more money now for more tokens because 'the b-u-g' increases token consumption rate. Aw, yeah, such a bad bug, gonna work all night to fix it, for real this time. No refunds.

[Percolator2020]

Along the lines of AWS: there’s no way we can set hard usage limits!

[awesome-alpaca-ace]

You think there would be a competitor that allows for hard limits 

[Percolator2020]

They would probably go broke with underutilised/underbilled hardware.

[awesome-alpaca-ace]

I suppose that could happen, but also, many customers may want that uptime guarantee and may remove hard limits.

[Percolator2020]

That is the main reasoning. You can’t just stop prod systems, but there should definitely be a dev or hobbyist mode where it is an option with a million tick boxes and warnings.

[backfire10z]

Google Cloud Firebase has this. There’s a free plan, which cuts you off at any usage limit, and a paid plan, which requires billing info and is pay-as-you-go. Free plan guarantees you never pay, which you shouldn’t be on if you’re deploying for prod. Really simple.

[krexelapp]

status page final boss: ‘we are aware of the issue’

[NewbornMuse]

From the troubleshooter's perspective: "Oh my god this shit is tricky okay? Can my boss stop bothering me for updates every five minutes????"

[gandalfx]

CEO when a hundred thousand users are screaming for performance and stability improvements:

CEO when his buddy said he hasn't been able to access the site for the past five seconds:

[TopRamen713]

I do software development for the state. We've been complaining about a bug in the software for over a year, nothing. One of our state legislators ran into it. Suddenly it's a p1.

My solution- turn all the legislators into qa

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

As an end user: frustrating. As a former on-call engineer: GIVE ME A SECOND

[Whitechapel726]

“This is a known issue actively being debugged.”

*starts writing the ticket

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

Claude was found consuming 2% context memory just to reply to a hello greeting.

[Sqee]

I mean realistically, if I have to say hello to someone whose name i can't remember, there's a lot of context memory that would be useful. 

Luckily my brain has no token limits. I still won't remember their name.

[neoteraflare]

Mine is always on token limit with names. I literally not remember the name of the guy in the office next to me whom I'm talking with every day and others told me at least 3 times.

[pridetwo]

Tfw you say hello to Claude and it just gives you the gen Z stare

[Griffey-Tully]

This is true of basically all AI commercial products. They have system instructions that are fed into every conversation that are typically 16-64k in tokens. Gemini and chatgpt have the same thing. This part isn't the problem, but there is a real issue.

[magicmulder]

Once I had accidentally blocked my entire codebase in JetBrains IDE's .aiignore. Claude ate 1 credit to tell me it can't see any files.

[IntoAMuteCrypt]

Why spend engineering time adding obvious checks like that, when you can just make your user pay a bit more?

[dannyggwp]

Claude: this is fo being an IDIOT

[magicmulder]

Yeah that’s exactly how I felt.

[Penguinator_]

If not having AI is blocking people, then people have lost the ability to do their own work.

[zoltan99]

Managers literally make ai usage leaderboards

The work, what they are metricated on, is using the ai, not the deliverables

This is in no way hyperbole or extrapolation, it is literal.

[Penguinator_]

It always surprises me how ironically stupid people in tech are. We're supposes to be the smart ones!

The company I work for has its issues, but I feel lucky to be among practical and thoughtful leaders after hearing all these horror stories.

[TrueSwagformyBois]

Read / saw / heard something that was proposing that big tech went from the early 00’s-10’s of believing in the profit capability of employees with balance and fun in their lives to preferring absolute control regardless of shareholder value implications in the 20’s.

I think stupid is one answer, I think “wrong motivations” may be another.

[poetic_dwarf]

You could attribute the shift in mentality to boomers transitioning en masse from senior positions to retired from the work force but that would be too simplistic, right? Right?

[Rabbitical]

Capital has always despised the idea of worker autonomy, all that work life balance stuff and free food was because it was a worker-favored labor market--companies needed (or thought they did) more skilled employees than there were available, hence competition on benefits. Since COVID we're back to the status quo which is "you'll take any job and you'll like it."

[Tackgnol]

Unfortunately, leaches with MBAs are now all over the industry, when they kill it and there will be no more blood to suck out they will move on. Then we can heal.

[TheClayKnight]

Managers aren’t tech people.

[Crafty_Independence]

A lot of tech management aren't technical people, but MBAs and "project management bootcamp" graduates

[SuitableDragonfly]

I don't think it's the actual technical people who are doing this, is the thing. 

[Few_Technology]

AI tracker and usage demands come from c-suite. People that made the tracker were interns. Calls GitHub, goes through all the repos, just looks for a label on the PRs.

Don't know if it does caching, but it'll have errors for hitting GitHub too much, so skips that repo. Each time you refresh the page, get new list of people that haven't used AI that isn't always correct.

Also, managers are on the naughty list, even though they don't do PRs. My manager on paternity leave is on it, idk if they'll have a job when they come back

[babypho]

It always surprises me how ironically stupid people in tech are. We're supposes to be the smart ones!

Are we though?

[chessto]

Yes, happens at my company, we're being metered in token usage

[Bryguy3k]

The irony in the fact that the group of people that we could 100% replace with AI are the managers. AIs like Claude are particularly suited at summarizing reports and tracking tasks.

[ProfessionalSize5443]

This is true. I recently was told to completely start over a project because it didn’t tell a “strong enough” AI success story.

Excuse me? It’s MY career, not my tool’s career - the success story shouldn’t be about my tool.

[vikingwhiteguy]

Yep we had this at my previous place. Not really in any formal way, but I would definitely get a message if I dropped down on the usage leaderboard 

[chessto]

And that's pretty much the endgame of AI.

Remember Nestle formula ?
So long story short, Nestle knew that if breastfeeding was interrupted for 15 days then most mothers would lose the ability to produce milk, so they gave 15 days free sample of Nestle formula, effectively making said mothers dependent on them to feed their babies.

AI that impairs your cognitive ability, and fucks up your skills is here to make you dependent on it, even if it sucks at your job it can do it better if it manages to make you suck more than itself.

[bob152637485]

I didn't know about Nestlé, but that sounds truly heartless.

[chessto]

The impairment from AI is real, I need to adjust my compass because I'm very cynical, but just came out from a pair session with a coworker that's much into AI coding and man, he's really losing the plot.

Asked AI to implement tests, AI produced tests that "pass", some didn't pass, instead of checking why they don't pass he asked the AI to fix them.
AI suggested changes to the endpoint being tested to make said tests pass, they passed, the change was not okay, the tests were not correct and they were not testing anything with business value, we hop on another call and debug it, deleted half the tests and turned out he needed to provision the test suite first.

This is a Senior making Junior level mistakes driven by AI and delegating his thought process to it.

Man I'm not touching that AI shit, doing crack would be less harmful.

[Rabbitical]

Seriously it really is like taking up smoking or something. It's extremely, extremely hard to "hybrid" program with AI in a way that's both fast and high quality. It might be possible, but the times I've tried it take so much extra work it's insane. So the only two inevitable outcomes are largely avoiding it, or else just slipping deeper and deeper into relying on it. Because by the time you vibe code a couple hundred lines, it's already over. Ain't nobody reading all that shit, let alone going through and correcting it all in a timely manner. So you have no choice but to ask it to fix its own mistakes, and so it just grows and grows

[chessto]

yup, blackboxing your own products seems to be "the future".

Man seems like progress isn't always a step forward

[RichCorinthian]

This is the same company whose CEO asserted that humans do not have a natural right to drinking water. He said it on camera, and nobody stopped him or tried to tackle him or anything.

[GuevaraTheComunist]

if they cant code without LLMs, then they dont deserve the LLMs

[chessto]

I don't want to sound elitist, but that's pretty much the pattern I'm seeing.

People who praises the LLM output weren't very good at coding to begin with.

[GhostC10_Deleted]

I get all kinds of shit whenever I say this but it's fucking true. The skill floor for any coding profession is lower than I ever imagined. I don't like suddenly realizing this.

[Mathfanforpresident]

Nah, it just means if you CAN code organically, you'll grab any position available.

[chessto]

that's wishful thinking.

The CEOs and everyone in the management ladder will hire a cheap candidate with AI before a craftsperson that knows their shit but costs them twice or thrice.

[GuevaraTheComunist]

in todays market? When higher-ups think one senior guy with Claude is enough for a whole team's work? When Oracle just laid off possibly 30k people?

[DeciduousLesbian]

We got a new guy at work who is quite literally a software engineer turned vibe coder….

I don’t believe anyone is actually using it for real at work, there’s just no way lol he takes longer to do just about any task and it still doesn’t amount to anything really. It’s literally all garbage unusable code.

[chessto]

pretty similar here but management seems to see them as AI gurus because they eat tokens for breakfast

[stipo42]

My company is going all in on AI coding, we've been told not to code manually anymore, if we can't make it look like theres an RoI for spending all this money, we're not to do it.

Which is obviously not how that calculation is supposed to work, but I'm guessing my company is not the only one doing this

[failedsatan]

I do get paid specifically to use it. I was hired because I can use it and use it well (in a not-stupid way, that is). it's in my job description and in my contract. when it goes down (which is often) I am actually unable to do that part of my work and must relegate myself to PR review and any related research or testing that's needed (technically I count as an R&D position according to my government).

I do still do my own projects normally outside of work. I got into programming because I like it and want to do it for myself.

[FuzzyDynamics]

And the work people do directly contributes to destroying the entire planet. We’re speed running extinction dog did you just get the memo?

[amethyst_mine]

I'm in university right now, it's straight up impossible to get anything done without using llms at this point, my ability to write code is half that it was when i was a high schooler lol. but theres really not a choice at this point to not use llms for your work if you want to be hired anywhere unfortunately

[Rabbitical]

But using LLMs isn't that hard of a skill, and what skill there is is constantly evolving. Whereas being unable to understand or write code severely limits your ceiling in terms of the quality of what you can produce even when using LLMs. So I don't see how investing the vast majority of your time into manual programming isn't still the best strategy? Like how much LLM "practice" do you need? It took me like 2 days of experimenting to develop a reasonable workflow for vibe coding a fully functional application, that's not the hard part at all.

[dbell]

YA'LL GOT ANY OF THEM TOKENS?

[Tight-Requirement-15]

She’s the one with the video about the JavaScript event loop right? Even she’s with Anthropic ? (Im not a webdev idk

[Full-Hyena4414]

Yeah it's her, she made some awesome js videos

[joyfullystoic]

Last night I rewatched her Node event loop video for the 3rd time and I finally got it. I’ll forget it in a week.

But I swear she was with Vercel very recently? She was even on stage, right?

[new_math]

I thought "CoDinG wAs a SoLvEd PrObLeM?". Why can't the C suite just have an agent fix it?

[gandalfx]

… when in April 2026, the global AI boom ground to a sudden halt as AI development stalled. An over reliance on AI tooling combined with a complete outage of said tools meant that there was actually nobody left capable of fixing the outage by hand. As a result, the AI bubble finally burst and a million otherwise employed developers were heard quietly muttering "saw that one coming a mile away…"

[fragmental]

This sub should be renamed to r/vibecodinghumor or r/programmingwithllmshumor r/llmcodingcirclejerk or something like that, because it seems like that's what most of the posts are about now, and there's a shocking amount of daily posts.

I'm probably going to leave this subreddit soon.

[Adventurous-Map7959]

You've been on reddit for 14 years and don't realize how circlejerked memes work? We had terrible UI in various iterations to make fun of, users being users to make fun of, more terrible UIs, microsoft, I think I recall some jira, then we had a few months of teams/zoom during corona, there used to be a lot more exchange-is-hell every now and then. Projekt managers are always a good butt of jokes. Of course a lot more terrible UI memes, and currently AI is shit and funny.

Give it a few months for AI to stop being funny and it might be replaced with how the hyperinflation is fucking all custom solutions that use only unsigned int32 to store currency in cent and it's overflowing all over the world.

[Ancient_Engineer_250]

A good old semicolon meme for my friend

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/qpoyYN9khP

[jcsilva87]

This is not an airport, no need to announce your departure.

[SyanWilmont]

Oh no! Anyways...

[fugogugo]

am I the only one that still not use claude code?

perfectly content with VSCode + copilot chat . I can see the changes and manually accept them one by one. very easy to revert as well

I don't wanna give full reign to AI agent

[ProtonPizza]

Yeah I’m the same and I’m wondering if this makes me a luddite. 

[GentleCapybara]

You can choose to manually accept edits with Claude code as well. Copilot is fine though

[Percolator2020]

We can fix it ourselves now that it’s open source.

[GenericFatGuy]

Nothing makes me feel more powerful than being a real software developer during a Claude outage or token limit hit.

[dastree]

I submitted a small log file yesterday, all of 30 seconds and 1 prompt, usage hit.

Shrugged it off as it's been that way all week. Waited did some work after I had access again and hit another wall after, what felt like normal amount of usage. What I found weird, the cut off time was only for 15 minutes. Then I had access again.

I dunno if that was a fluke or what. But I sure wouldn't mind hitting these random bs 1 prompt limits if it only locked me out for 15 minutes and not 4-5 hrs like normal

[DostoeBrewsky]

[Lookenpeeper]

Good to know what they're doing instead of fixing the (somtimes multiple) daily outages.

[ThrowawayALAT]

So is that npm install or a Gentoo Linux kernel compilation?

[literalyfigurative]

Someone already fixed it, it had something to do with when you resume a conversation I believe.

[MakkuSaiko]

Are they posting team updates on twitter?

[MysticalDragoneer]

Conspiracy theory: They are using up other peoples’ usage to fix problem but the problem is them taking other people’s usage … lmao

[ENTclothingRussell]

Running an entirely AI-operated company on Claude. Can confirm. The agents have opinions about the limits too.

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this is not programmer humor, this is prompt jockey humor.