Reset guides
Plain explanations of how AI coding quotas and their reset windows actually behave.
- Claude Code has three limits, not one. The error names which.
Session, weekly, and per-model are three separate caps with three different fixes. Read the exact error string first, or you will wait on the wrong clock.
7 min read
- When does Claude's weekly limit reset? Read yours, not a table
The weekly cap prints its own reset time, and it is specific to your account. Here is how to read it, and what to do with the widely-repeated Monday figure.
6 min read
- Your Codex window starts when you do, not on a clock
Codex meters in five-hour windows. Because a window opens with your first request, its reset can be placed inside your working day instead of after it.
6 min read
- A rate limit and a usage quota are different systems with the same name
One throttles requests per minute on an API key. The other spends a subscription allowance over days. The error text is similar; the fix is not.
6 min read
- Three kinds of reset, and only one is predictable
A rolling window refills on arithmetic. A vendor reset arrives without warning. A banked reset waits for you. Only one of the three can be planned around.
6 min read
- Time zones, announcement lag, and why reset times are hard to pin down
Reset announcements arrive in someone else's time zone, usually late. Here is how to convert them reliably and why the timestamp you see is not the timestamp that matters.
3 min read
- "You've hit your usage limit": what each error actually means
AI coding tools return different errors for different constraints. Reading the error correctly tells you whether to wait minutes, hours, or a day.
3 min read
- How to check your remaining AI coding usage
Where each tool hides its usage panel, what the numbers mean, and which of them you should not trust. A practical walkthrough for Codex, Claude Code and Gemini.
3 min read
- Codex vs Claude Code: how their limits differ in practice
Same category, different shapes. Codex and Claude Code constrain usage in ways that reward different working styles, and that changes which one to reach for.
3 min read
- The rolling window: how limits actually accumulate
Most confusion about AI coding limits comes from treating them as daily quotas. They are rolling windows. Here is the difference and why it changes when you can work.
4 min read
- What a Codex reset actually is (and why it is not a schedule)
Codex and Claude Code both cap how much you can run in a window. A reset is when that cap lifts early. Here is what triggers one, and what does not.
4 min read