The hardest decision of my day: buy more tokens or wait for the reset. Not inventory. Not payroll. Not the eBay fee change.
By Christopher Hamze · Archived October 2, 2026
The hardest decision of my day: buy more tokens or wait for the reset.
Not inventory. Not payroll. Not the eBay fee change.
Tokens.
Twelve years I built software with a team of developers. Now I build alone with AI. It writes the code. It writes the listings. It writes half of what you read from me.
And every few days it stops me cold.
"You've hit your limit. Resets in 3 hours."
So I sit there like a kid staring at the arcade counter. Do I break another twenty? Or do I go home and come back tomorrow?
Here's what that says about the tool. When it's down, I'm down. I don't wait on my laptop. I don't wait on my phone. I wait on this.
That's not a subscription anymore. That's a utility.
I wish I was even slightly qualified for any job at OpenAI. Not for the salary. For the unlimited credits.
If you run a small business and haven't hit a token limit yet, you're not using AI hard enough.
What's the most useful thing AI does for you right now?