“You’ve hit your ChatGPT usage limit” — and what it actually reveals about LLM usage

“You’ve hit your ChatGPT usage limit.” I didn’t expect that message to mean anything beyond mild inconvenience. But it ended up revealing something much deeper about how I was using AI, and how most of us probably are. Background I’ve been working on building an autonomous snow-clearing robot since 2023. It’s one of those projects where everything sounds straightforward until you actually try to make it work: motor control traction turning dynamics real-world constraints Things got a lot more i...