Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users

Post by mosdl » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

lacker wrote: post #94

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…

Will the other models really catch up, though? To me it seems like Anthropic's lead in programming has increased over the past year. Isn't it possible that over time, some models just become fundamentally better at some things than other models?

Post by neom » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 1:22 AM UTC

r0fl wrote: post #108

neom wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We just came out of closed alpha yesterday and have been trying to figure out how best to price, if you'd be willing to provide any feedback I'd certainly appreciate it: https://www.charlielabs.ai/pricing - Thank you!! :)

You are charging $2500 a month!? I’ll assuming this is real and not trolling. Who are the customers? What kind of people spend that much? I know people using $200-300 models but this is 10x that!

Post by shepherdjerred » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 1:29 AM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #99

sothatsit wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tell you how I hit it: Opus and long workflows. I have two big workflows: plan and implement. Plan follows a detailed workflow to research an idea and produce a planning document for how to implement it. This routinely takes $10-30 in API credits to run in the background. I will then review this 200-600 line document and fix up any mistakes or remove unnecessary details. Then implement is usually cheaper, and i…

This is very interesting as a workflow. How “big” are the asks you’re giving Claude? Can you give an example of the type of question you’d ask it to implement where it requires a discrete planning document that long? Whenever I use it, I typically do much smaller asks, eg “add a button here”, “make that button trigger a refresh with a filter of such state…”

Post by nikisweeting » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 1:33 AM UTC

sneilan1 wrote: post #31

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.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 1:35 AM UTC

alphager wrote: post #63

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…

Even if Moore's law was still in effect and the computer resources required stayed the same and compute stayed as efficient per watt (neither is true), it would just halve compute costs every 18 months. You're able to read about people hitting $4000 costs/month on the $200 plan upthread. That's 8 years until it's cost effective. Are they really ready to burn money for 8 years?