It was 2:49 AM and I was deep in a debugging session with Claude — the kind where you’ve lost track of time and the git log is starting to look like a diary of questionable decisions.
Then the notification: You’ve reached your usage limit.
And right below it: Your limit resets at 2:50 AM.
One minute. My AI pair programmer had walked out on me — for exactly sixty seconds.
I’d like to tell you I used that minute wisely. Stretched. Drank water. Reflected on my life choices. What actually happened is that I sat there watching the clock, waiting for my robot colleague to come back from its one-minute break.
It came back at 2:50. We kept going. I went to bed at 4.
There’s probably a lesson here about work-life balance, or about how “my AI ran out and I had to wait a minute” is now a genuine inconvenience in a developer’s night. But mostly the lesson is: I should go to bed earlier.
(I won’t.)
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