User Experience Woes: Highlighting Issues with Assistant API Usage

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Thanks for sharing your anecdote consistent with expectations.

“API requests” doesn’t tell the exact story, because it takes several API requests to even set an assistant and question in motion. Conclusion:

Error while using Assistants api

rate limit exceeded → the assistant is taking to much context length and looping and burning tokens until maxing out your account’s token-per-minute limit. The rate limit saved your account from being emptied by this thing. Not for experimentation. No success stories. Only $5 questions and $200+ an hour. Do not use.