What is a rate limit?
A rate limit is the ceiling on how much you can use in a window, before you have to wait.
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It is why a long afternoon suddenly stops. You have not broken anything, you have spent the allowance.
Output tokens burn it fastest, which is why asking for a diff rather than a full rewrite buys you hours.
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