UK Startup Founder Plans Workday Like It's a Gas Station Trip

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KEY POINTS

•Max Johnson, 24, cofounder of Briix.ai in Manchester, had to rethink his AI work style due to recent usage caps.
•Anthropic introduced session limits in late March, causing 7% of users to hit new restrictions, leading to workday fragmentation.
•NYU student Ani Potts and Toronto developer Danial Qureshi adapt work habits around these limits to balance productivity with mental health.

Max Johnson, the 24-year-old cofounder of Manchester's Briix.ai, once ran Claude chat marathons spilling AI tokens like confetti during all-hours productivity fiestas. Now, thanks to Anthropic's tightened usage caps introduced in late March, Johnson's luxury of 'two prompts in and done' has birthed a new workday ritual: panicking over an invisible AI meter and breaking social media scripts, animations, and docs into micro-projects. His five-person startup dreams of dropping $2,400 yearly on an enterprise plan to reunify their splintered AI use. NYU’s Ani Potts, 21, meanwhile, Claude codes through Saturday nights, rationing AI like toilet paper in a pandemic, while Toronto's Danial Qureshi pays 28 Canadian dollars monthly for Claude Pro and stops coding just in time to hit his token limit—because manual coding is so 2019 and avoiding burnout is the hot new hustle.