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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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There’s been a ton of ‘service overloaded’ errors this week so it makes sense that they had to adjust it.

Personally I’ve never hit a usage limit on the $100 plan even when running several Claude tabs at once. I can’t imagine how people can max out the $200 plan.

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

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They're not selling them, they're still giving them away. Once the VC money runs out we'll see what the actual cost of this stuff is.

most inference runs at 40%+ margin

Is this like saying a gym runs at 40%+ margin because 80% of users don't really use it heavily or forget they even had a subscription? Would be interested to see the breakdown of that number.

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

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I honestly feel sorry for these vibe coders. I'm loving AI in a similar way that I loved google or IDE magic. This seems like a far worst version of those developers that tried to build an entire app with Eclipse or Visual Studio GUI drag and drop from the late 90s

Why isn't anyone talking about the bevvy of drag-and-drop no colder solutions that have already been in the market? Surely the LLMs are competing with those tools, right?

People trash LLM code as if most consumer software isn't buggy piles of half assed code.

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

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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…

Can you share some code? I work with a guy like this who claims this level of output but in reality he consumes massive amounts of other devs time in PR review. Are you doing a lot of broad throwaway tasks? I’ve had similar feelings when writing custom code for my editor, one off scripts, etc but it’s nothing I would ever put my professional reputation behind.

I wouldn't blame AI. A terrible developer using AI becomes a bad developer. A good developer using AI becomes a great developer.

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

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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…

Faster overall, sure. But I am interrupt driven and typing the prompt alone is faster yet, so I do that and come back after a bit (bouncing between many open tasks), so the fact that the agent took 3x longer overall doesn’t matter, because it happens in the background. my time was just spent typing out the prompt, which was only seconds.

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

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Who would have though including a hard depedency on third part service with unclear long term availability would be a problem! Paid compilers and remotely acessible mainframes all over again - people apparently never learn.

Everyone that successfully avoided social media for the last decade escaped with their mental health. Everyone that carefully moderates their ai intake (e.g don’t depend on Claude Code) will also escape with their skills over the next decade, others will become AI fiends, just the like social media fiends. Just knowing tech like the internet and ai can fuck your whole brain up is enough to be ahead of the curve. If y…

curious, maybe one could go and spin up a study for using claculators instead of calculating manually and how it can lead to less x type of thinking and affect our abiltiy but maybe even if that is true(i am not sure maybe it is just in the domains we dont feel like we need to care much or etc) would people quitting clacutors a good thing for producing value in the world by the will of God?

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

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“It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.” This is probably another marketing stunt. Turn off the flow of cocaine and have users find out how addicted they are. And they'll pay for the purest cocaine, not for second grade.

It was always gonna be the Uber approach. Cheap and great turns to expensive and mediocre when they have to turn the money spigot on.

Even expensive Uber or expensive Sonnet 4 is still a great deal when you consider the BATNA. Programmers on the level of Sonnet 4 are expensive.
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