Ngl, I’m really gonna miss request-based AI coding limits
I was working on Rune and gave the agent one massive frontend workflow in a single prompt. Migrating 70+ topics from .ts to .mdx, generating new MDX pipelines, creating grouped docs for testing/devops/observability/architecture, rewriting files, and handling frontend structure changes all together.
And halfway through, the AI literally paused and asked for confirmation because it realized how insane the task was about to become 😭😂
That moment genuinely made me realize how different usage-based pricing is gonna feel for real AI coding workflows.
Back with request-based limits, one task was just one request. Simple and predictable.
Now one “request” can silently turn into huge context windows, thousands of lines of generated code/docs, long reasoning chains, retries, tool calls, file rewrites, and enough usage to probably wipe out a weekly quota on a $20 plan.
The craziest part is that this was still technically just a single prompt.
Honestly gonna miss the request-based era a lot.