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by llm_nerd 94 days ago
The psychology is to hook you on the usage. A lot of people see a little movement in the usage meter and get cold feet about heavy usage. The prior $70 credit deal and now this offering are to try to get people to dive in, and hopefully retain that usage pattern afterwards.
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operatingthetan 94 days ago
Anthropic's models are obviously superior at coding right now but using 2-3 $20 accounts between different providers is still a very effective way to get good value. Gemini CLI and Codex seem to be at least 2x more permissive on usage. The models are good enough.

Plus we are technologists, we want to try out different stuff and compare.

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llm_nerd 94 days ago
That's precisely what I do, with subscriptions to all of them. Gemini almost seems unlimited...like I never hit limits with it. Don't even know how to check my usage for the subscription plans on that.

But increasingly I'm using Claude for basically all real coding. I ask Gemini and Codex questions, but I'm honestly in awe at Opus' ridiculous capabilities.

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hermanzegerman 94 days ago
/stats session shows you the remaining quota in Gemini CLI and when the quota resets, and they dropped the quota badly in the last few days.

Before that I would totally agree with you, it felt really endless

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Fabricio20 93 days ago
I tried gemini the other day and after asking it 3 things I hit a limit. That's after gemini cli crashed my terminal twice for some reason (just opening it `gemini` caused the freeze -> crash). I must be doing something wrong because using gemini flash over openrouter I barely spend credits, yet my subscription ran out almost instantly.
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dgacmu 93 days ago
Gemini 3.1 pro under a Google AI pro subscription has just recently started imposing really small weekly limits. I went from it feeling unlimited to hitting a 4 day quota in 2 hours of use. Very odd. Wonder if too many people jumped on with the 3.1 pro release.
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votepaunchy 93 days ago
Same experience with the recent quota change on Google AI Pro. People have asked for yearly plans but given the vague and ever shifting limits it would be crazy to commit long-term.
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