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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by dawnerd »

Aurornis wrote: post #4

I played with Claude Code using the basic $20/month plan for a toy side project. I couldn't believe how many requests I could get in. I wasn't using this full-time for an entire workweek, but I thought for sure I'd be running into the $20/month limits quickly. Yet I never did. To be fair, I spent a lot of time cleaning up after the AI and manually coding things it couldn't figure out. It still seemed like an incredib…

I hit the limits within an hour with just one request in CC. Not even using opus. It’ll chug away but eventually switch to the nearing limit message. It’s really quite ridiculous and not a good way to upsell to the higher plans without definitive usage numbers.

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by [deleted] »

buremba wrote: post #7

They're likely burning money so I can't be pissed off yet, but we see the same Cursor as well; the pricing is not transparent. I'm paying for Max, and when I use the tooling to calculate the spend returned by the API, I can see it's almost $1k! I have no idea how much quota I have left until the next block. The pricing returned by the API doesn't make any sense.

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Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by apwell23 »

oh yea looks like everyone and their grandma is hitting claude code

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3572

Inside info is they are using their servers to prioritize training for sonnet 4.5 to launch at the same time as xAI dedicated coding model. xAI coding logic is very close to sonnet 4 and has anthropic scrambling. xAI sucks at making designs but codes really well.

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by serf »

iwontberude wrote: post #8

Claude Code is not worth the time sink for anyone that already knows what they are doing. It's not that hard to write boilerplate and standard llm auto-predict was 95% of the way to Claude Code, Continue, Aider, Cursor, etc without the extra headaches. The hangover from all this wasted investment is going to be so painful.

>Claude Code is not worth the time sink

there are like 15~ total pages of documentation.

There are two folders , one for the home directory and one for the project root. You put a CLAUDE.md file in either folder which essentially acts like a pre-prompt. There are like 5 'magic phrases' like "think hard", 'make a todo', 'research..' , and 'use agents' -- or any similar set of phrases that trigger that route.

Every command can be ran in the 'REPL' environment for instant feedback, it itself can teach you how to use the product, and /help will list every command.

The hooks document is a bit incomplete last I checked, but it's a fairly straightforward system, too.

That's about it -- now explain vi/vim/emacs/pycharm/vscode in a few sentences for me. The 'time sink' is like 4 hours for someone that isn't learning how to use the computer environment itself.

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by micromacrofoot »

jablongo wrote: post #2

Id like to hear about the tools and use cases that lead people to hit these limits. How many sub-agents are they spawning? How are they monitoring them?

I've seen prompts telling it to spawn an agent to review every change it makes... and they're not monitoring anything

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by cladopa »

Aurornis wrote: post #4

I played with Claude Code using the basic $20/month plan for a toy side project. I couldn't believe how many requests I could get in. I wasn't using this full-time for an entire workweek, but I thought for sure I'd be running into the $20/month limits quickly. Yet I never did. To be fair, I spent a lot of time cleaning up after the AI and manually coding things it couldn't figure out. It still seemed like an incredib…

Thinking is extremely inefficient compared with the usual query in Chat.

If you think a lot, you can spend hundreds of dollars easily.

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by axpy906 »

Sevii wrote: post #10
iwontberude wrote: post #8

Claude Code is not worth the time sink for anyone that already knows what they are doing. It's not that hard to write boilerplate and standard llm auto-predict was 95% of the way to Claude Code, Continue, Aider, Cursor, etc without the extra headaches. The hangover from all this wasted investment is going to be so painful.

I've spent far too much of my life writing boilerplate and API integrations. Let Claude do it.

I agree. It’s a lot faster to tell it what I want and work on something else in the meantime. You end up ready code diffs more than writing code but it saves time.

Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

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Post by TrueDuality »

jablongo wrote: post #2

Id like to hear about the tools and use cases that lead people to hit these limits. How many sub-agents are they spawning? How are they monitoring them?

One with only manual interactions and regular context resets. I have a couple of commands I'll use regularly that have 200-500 words in them but it's almost exclusively me riding that console raw.

I'm only on the $100 Max plan and stick to the Sonnet model and I'll run into the hard usage limits after about three hours, that's been down to about two hours recently. The resets are about every four hours.

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