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

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

Implicated wrote: post #22
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.

Comments like this remind me that there's a whole host of people out there who have _no idea_ what these tools are capable of doing to ones productivity or skill set in general. > 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. Uh, no. To start - yea, boilerplate is easy. But like a sibling comment to th…

Well said. People seem to be binary: I code with it or I don’t.

Very few folks are talking about using the LLMs to sharpen THE DEVELOPER.

Just today I troubleshot an issue that likely would’ve taken me 2-3 hours without additional input. I wrapped it up and put a bow on it in 15 minutes. Oh, and also wrote a CLI tool fix the issue for me next time. Oh and wrote a small write up for the README for anyone else who runs into it.

Like… if you’re not embracing these tools at SOME level, you’re just being willfully ignorant at this point. There’s no badge of honor for willfully staying stuck in the past.

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

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Post by j45 »

jmartrican wrote: post #9

I have the $100 plan and now quickly get downgraded to Sonnet. But so far have not hit any other limits. I use it more on the weekends over several hours, so lets see what this weekend has in store. I suspected that something like this might happen, where the demand will outstrip the supply and squeeze small players out. I still think demand is in its infancy and that many of us will be forced to pay a lot more. Unle…

Off hour usage seems to be different for sure.

Also there's likely only so much fixed compute available, and it might be getting re allcoated for other uses behind the scene from time to time as more compute arrives.

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

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Post by bluefirebrand »

Ensorceled wrote: post #47
Ataraxic wrote: post #40

I 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 t…

> 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? This is my experience: at some point the AI isn't converging to a final solution and it's time to finish the rest by hand.

My experience is that if the AI doesn't oneshot it, it's faster to do it myself

If you find yourself going back and forth with the AI, you're probably not saving time over a traditional google search

Edit: and it basically never oneshots anything correctly

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

#54

Post by macinjosh »

pembrook wrote: post #49

The funny thing is Claude 4.0 isn't even that 'smart' from a raw intelligence perspective compared to the other flagship models. They've just done the work to tailor it specifically for proper tool using during coding. Once other models catch up, they will not be able to be so stingy on limits. Google has the advantage here given they're running on their own silicon; can optimize for it; and have nearly unlimited cas…

Prices for yesterday's frontier models will fall but there will always be the next big model. similar to how game graphics get ever better but ever more demanding at the bleeding edge.

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

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Post by AtheistOfFail »

gerdesj wrote: post #27
roxolotl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A coworker of mine claimed they've been burning $1k a week this month. Pretty wild it’s only costing the company $200 a month.

Crikey. Now I get the business model: I hire someone for say £5K/mo. They then spend $200/mo or is it a $1000/wk on Claude or whatevs. Profit!

The model is "outspend others until they're bankrupt".

Known as the Uber model or Amazon vs Diapers.com

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

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Post by [deleted] »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #51
Implicated wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments like this remind me that there's a whole host of people out there who have _no idea_ what these tools are capable of doing to ones productivity or skill set in general. > 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. Uh, no. To start - yea, boilerplate is easy. But like a sibling comment to th…

Well said. People seem to be binary: I code with it or I don’t. Very few folks are talking about using the LLMs to sharpen THE DEVELOPER. Just today I troubleshot an issue that likely would’ve taken me 2-3 hours without additional input. I wrapped it up and put a bow on it in 15 minutes. Oh, and also wrote a CLI tool fix the issue for me next time. Oh and wrote a small write up for the README for anyone else who runs…

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

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Post by andix »

martinald wrote: post #43

I'm not sure this is "intentional" per se or just massively overloaded servers because of unexpected demand growth and they are cutting rate limits until they can scale up more. This may become permanent/worse if the demand keeps outstripping their ability to scale. I'd be extremely surprised if Anthropic picked now of all times to decide on COGS optimisation. They potentially can take a significant slice of the enti…

A lot of people switched away from Cursor within the blink of an eye. Switching IDEs is a big deal for me - it takes a lot of effort, which is why I never switched to Cursor in the first place.

I think Claude Code is a much better concept, the coding agent doesn't need to be connected to the IDE at all. Which also means you can switch even faster to a competitor. In that sense, Claude Code may have been a huge footgun. Gaining market share might turn out to be completely worthless.

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

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Post by Terretta »

roxolotl wrote: post #21
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.

A coworker of mine claimed they've been burning $1k a week this month. Pretty wild it’s only costing the company $200 a month.

Wasn't there a stat somewhere that a good o3-pro deep research was ~$3500, per question?

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

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Post by ChadMoran »

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…

If you aren't hitting the limits you aren't writing great prompts. I can write a prompt and have it go off and work for about an hour and hit the limit. You can have it launch sub-agents, parallelize work and autonomously operate for long periods of time.

Think beyond just saying "do this one thing".

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

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Post by pinoy420 »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #53
Ensorceled wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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? This is my experience: at some point the AI isn't converging to a final solution and it's time to finish the rest by hand.

My experience is that if the AI doesn't oneshot it, it's faster to do it myself If you find yourself going back and forth with the AI, you're probably not saving time over a traditional google search Edit: and it basically never oneshots anything correctly

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