@ThePatientSpec@LinkofSunshine NYC has gotten comically expensive in last 5 years. I have lived here for 14 years. Everything is at least 2x as expensive as 8 years ago, if not more. You aren’t living an upper middle class lifestyle here on 145k, you are living a lower middle class at best.
the percentage of users using reasoning models each day is significantly increasing; for example, for free users we went from <1% to 7%, and for plus users from 7% to 24%.
i expect use of reasoning to greatly increase over time, so rate limit increases are important.