Token anxiety is the specific kind of stress that arrives when an AI tool you depend on hits its limit at the worst possible moment. Token anxiety does not build slowly or announce itself in advance — it appears mid-project, halfway through a conversation that has been going somewhere useful, when the screen stops and delivers a message that has become grimly familiar to anyone who uses AI heavily: “You have reached your usage limit.” That moment now has a name, a growing body of documentation, and for many users a monthly rhythm they have come to dread.

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