What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

Subscription-based coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex famously have 5-hour and weekly quotas on their LLM usage. Both of these are understandable: 5-hour quotas help stagger usage so the servers don’t get overloaded, and weekly resets prevent users from dumping an entire month’s worth of usage into a single day which a) also prevents overload and b) stops the user from just unsubscribing after they do so. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have played around with quota limits, from doubling them for a limited time to even removing the 5-hour quota. These model providers can reset the weekly quota for all users, often gifted as compensation in the event of technical glitches on their end. If, for example, you have a $100/mo Codex plan, then a weekly reset is worth $25 to you assuming you fully consume your quota—nowadays with the cost of top-tier LLMs like Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, that’s easier to do. However, these quota resets are not telegraphed and are generally not announced…