So far I’ve had 3-4 Claude code instances constantly working 8-12 hours a day every day. I use it like a stick shift though. When I need a big plan doc, switch to recommended model between opus and sonnet. And for coding, use sonnet. Sometimes I hit the opus limit but I simply switch to sonnet for the day and watch it more closely.
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
#32Id 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?
There was a batchmode pulled from the documentation after the first few days of the Claude Code release. Many of have been trying to be respectful with a stable 5 agent call but some people have pushed those limits much higher as it wasn’t being technically throttle until last week.
Tragedy of the commons strikes again...
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#33Is it really worth it to use opus vs. sonnet? sonnet is pretty good on its own.
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#34So far I’ve had 3-4 Claude code instances constantly working 8-12 hours a day every day. I use it like a stick shift though. When I need a big plan doc, switch to recommended model between opus and sonnet. And for coding, use sonnet. Sometimes I hit the opus limit but I simply switch to sonnet for the day and watch it more closely.
Honest question: what do you do with them? I would be so fascinated to see a video of this kind of workflow… I feel like I use LLMs as much as I can while still being productive (because the code they generate has a lot of slop) and still barely use the agentic CLIs, mostly just tab completion through windsurf, and Claude for specific questions by steering the context manually pasting the relevant stuff
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#35Claude 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.
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Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#36This is what really makes me sceptical of these tools. I've tried Claude Code and it does save some time even if I find the process boring and unappealing. But as much as I hate typing, my keyboard is mine and isn't just going to disappear one day, have its price hiked or refuse to work after 1000 lines. I would hate to get used to these tools then find I don't have them any more. I'm all for cutting down on typing b…
> my keyboard is mine and isn't just going to disappear one day, have its price hiked or refuse to work after 1000 lines.
I dunno, from my company or boss's perspective, there are definitely days where I've seriously considered just disappearing, demanding a raise, or refusing to work after the 3rd meeting or 17th Jira ticket. And I've seen cow orkers and friends do all three of those over my career.
(Perhaps LLMs are closer to replacing human developers that anyone has realized yet?)
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#37They'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.
Can you clarify which tooling you are using? Is it cursor-stats?
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#38Claude 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 com…
Yeah, Claude Code was by far the quickest/easiest for me to get set up. The longest part was just getting my API key
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#39So far I’ve had 3-4 Claude code instances constantly working 8-12 hours a day every day. I use it like a stick shift though. When I need a big plan doc, switch to recommended model between opus and sonnet. And for coding, use sonnet. Sometimes I hit the opus limit but I simply switch to sonnet for the day and watch it more closely.
Honest question: what do you do with them? I would be so fascinated to see a video of this kind of workflow… I feel like I use LLMs as much as I can while still being productive (because the code they generate has a lot of slop) and still barely use the agentic CLIs, mostly just tab completion through windsurf, and Claude for specific questions by steering the context manually pasting the relevant stuff
I focus more on reading code & prompting claude to write code for me at a high level. I also experiment a lot. I don't write code anymore by hand except in very rare cases. I ask claude for questions about the code to build understanding. I have it produce documentation, which is then consumed into other prompts. Often, claude code will need several minutes on a task so I start another task. My coding throughput on a day to day basis is now the equivalent of about 2-3 people.
I also use gemini to try out trading ideas. For example, the other day I had gemini process google's latest quarterly report to create a market value given the total sum of all it's businesses. It valued google at $215. Then I bought long call options on google. Literally vibe day trading.
I use chat gpt sora to experiment with art. I've always been fascinated with frank lloyd wright and o4 has gotten good enough to not munge the squares around in the coonley playhouse image so that's been a lot of fun to mess with.
I use cheaper models & rag to automate categorizing of my transactions in Tiller. Claude code does the devops/python scripting to set up anything google cloud related so I can connect directly to my budget spreadsheet in google sheets. Then I use llama via openrouter + a complex RAG system to analyze my historical credit card data & come up with accurate categorizations for new transactions.
This is only scratching the surface. I now use claude for devops, frontend, backend, fixing issues with embedder models in huggingface candle. The list is endless.
Re: Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
#40I need to see a video of what people are doing to hit the max limits regularly.
I find sonnet really useful for coding but I never even hit basic limits. at $20/mo. Writing specs, coming up with documentation, doing wrote tasks for which many examples exist in the database. Iterate on particular services etc.
Are these max users having it write the whole codebase w/ rewrites? Isn't it often just faster to fix small things I find incorrect than type up why I think it's wrong in English and have it do a whole big round trip?