gpt-engineer: Unable to use gpt-engineer with API from a free account with OpenAI

Hi, I am using a MacOS and a free OpenAI account. After following the readme and setting the API key, when I run the “gpt-engineer first_auto” command, I get the following info:

openai:error_code=insufficient_quota error_message='You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.' error_param=None error_type=insufficient_quota message='OpenAI API error received' stream_error=False

The execution then fails with the following error: openai.error.RateLimitError: You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details.

I am new to this, could you please help me understand what is happening?

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After some testing the limit thing is probably not the only reason this doesn’t work, because after some testing and changes to the code it seems like I always get this error even when it should be the first requests of the program. Maybe there is still hope to use this tool without paying for every try