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

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Post by Cagrikartal »

ivape wrote: post #126
m4rtink wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 getting things done in the world ?

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

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adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #44

That’s funny I literally started the $200/month plan this week because I routinely spend $300+/month on API tokens. And I was thinking to myself, “How does this make any sense financially for Anthropic to let me have all of this for $200/month?” And then I kept getting hit with those overloaded api errors so I canceled my plan and went back to API tokens. I still have no idea what they’re doing over there but I’ll ha…

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

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Post by a_bonobo »

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…

There's a lot you can do in terms of efficient token usage in the context of Claude Code, I wouldn't be surprised if they soon launch a Claude Code-specific model.

In my experiments, it would be enormously wasteful in token usage, doing things like re-reading all Python scripts in the current folder just to make sure all comments were up-to-date, or it re-read an R script to make sure all brackets were closed correctly. Surely that's where a good chunk of the waste comes from?

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

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Post by moomoo11 »

sneilan1 wrote: post #39
mpeg wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Do you use it to make any actual products that makes money?

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Post by edg5000 »

ChadMoran wrote: post #59
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".

I've used CC a lot and to great effect, but it never runs more than 10 mins (Opus). Completely independent for 60 min, sounds impressive. Can you share some insights on this? Really curious; I can also share recents prompts of mine.

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

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Post by ethan_smith »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #93

I wish models which we can self-host at home would start catching up. Relying on hosted providers like this is a huge risk, as can be seen in this case. I just worry that there’s little incentive for bit corporations to research optimising the “running queries for a single user in a consumer GPU” use case. I wonder if getting funding for such research is even viable at all.

Check out Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, which now runs on consumer hardware with 24GB VRAM using techniques like unsloth or llama.cpp's new Q4_K_M quantization - surprisingly competitive with Claude for many coding tasks.

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

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Post by edg5000 »

submeta wrote: post #167

It’s like you buy an M4 MacBook and silently Apple throttles it and makes it an M1. If that happened every tech magazine would write about it, consumer advocates would be in rage. How’s it possible that AI companies sell you a product for 100 USD a month and silently degrade it?

They have fixed capacity but want to provide a reasonable product for all. They've really struggled with defining and enforcing quotas. It seems they have issues predicting what their actual capacity is, how many users they want. Also, there is not much competition. The prices are not really anchored to anything. Hopefully it will improve.

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Post by gdudeman »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #24

> One user, who asked not to be identified, said it has been impossible to advance his project since the usage limits came into effect. Vibe limit reached. Gotta start doing some thinking.

More than some thinking. They’ll probably need to think hardest or even ultrathink to keep the project moving forward.

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

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Post by edg5000 »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #44

That’s funny I literally started the $200/month plan this week because I routinely spend $300+/month on API tokens. And I was thinking to myself, “How does this make any sense financially for Anthropic to let me have all of this for $200/month?” And then I kept getting hit with those overloaded api errors so I canceled my plan and went back to API tokens. I still have no idea what they’re doing over there but I’ll ha…

This was with Opus? What sort of tasks were you doing? I found that very large files (2.5MB source file) can really eat up tokens. Other than that, I've never run out with my 100 EUR plan, exclusively using Opus.

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

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Post by edg5000 »

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…

You are using the "auto-switch back to Sonnet" mode right? Try just selecting Opus without the auto-switch, probably you'll get more Opus and may not run out of it. Anthropic is just being careful because Opus eats compute and they don't want people getting disappointed. But for me it does not run out that quickly. Only when I asked it to work on a 50k+ source code file, which it had to ingest entirely in my case, is when I ran out.
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