I could probably generate hundreds of Gemini images before hitting the limit — but the new AI meter still changed…

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Google just introduced new Gemini usage limits and a usage meter to go with them that shows a graph of how much you’ve used — and despite never getting close to my limit, it’s still changed the way I use AI.

AI tools have spent the last couple of years trying to feel frictionless. You type a prompt, generate an image, ask another question, and the responses keep flowing with almost no sense of limitation behind the scenes. Of course, there were always limits, but they were never visible. You just somehow stumbled into them and went off to do something else instead.

While generating images in Gemini this week, I noticed each creation quietly shaving a percentage off my current limit, and this time I could actually see how much I was using. Generating one image dropped the meter by 1%. Another chipped away a little more. I was...

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