I don't know if it's just that GitHub Copilot is having a bad time at the moment, or if I've run into a genuine problem, but all isn't well today. After merging last night's result I kicked off another request related to a group of changes I want to make to BlogMore. It's a little involved, and it did take it a wee while to work on, but mostly it got the work done.

Again, as I said in the earlier post, I won't get into the detail of these changes yet, but they're fairly extensive and do include some breaking changes, so it's probably going to take a wee while to have it all come together. Claude's first shot at the latest change was almost there but with the glaring bug that it did all the work but didn't actually add the part that reads the configuration file settings and uses them (yeah, that's a good one, isn't it?).

So I asked it to fix it. It went off, worked on the issue, and then suddenly...

Denied

This surprised me. After the past few weeks I've had sessions where I've requested it do things way more frequently than this morning. I'm also nowhere near out of premium requests either:

Number of requests left

While the error, as shown, might be valid and might be down to my actions, it's massively unhelpful and doesn't really explain what I did to cause this or even how I can remedy it. This is made all the more frustrating by the fact that it seems to be saying I need to wait <duration> to try again. Yes, literally a placeholder of <duration>. O_o

One thing is for sure: this is another useful experiment in the current experiment. It's worth having the experience of having the tool screw with the flow. It doesn't come as a surprise, but it's a good reminder that using an agent that is hosted by someone else means you fully rely on their ability to keep it working, the whims of their API limits, and perhaps even your ability to pay.