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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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Post by buremba »

isodev wrote: post #139
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.

> They're likely burning money so I can't be pissed off yet What do you mean? That’s totally a good reason to be pissed off at them. I’m so tired of products that launch before they have a clear path to profitability.

I'm okay with free VC money; it's their problem to make it profitable.

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

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Post by m4rtink »

stavros wrote: post #204
m4rtink wrote: post #82

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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.

You need to run the cost/benefit analysis here: if I had avoided Claude Code, all that would have happened is I would have written much less code. What's the cost between never using Claude, and using it and getting these lower limits? In the end, I'm left with no Claude in both situations, which leaves me better off for having used it (I wrote more code when Claude worked).

The metric being more lines of code usually turnes out to not be a very good one. Can it also help you do the same with less lines of code & reduced complexity ?

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

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Post by latexr »

bjclark wrote: post #245
latexr wrote: post #224

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> For developers who read and understand the code being generated, the tool could go away and it would only slow you down Recent research suggests it would in fact speed you up. https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

You should actually read the paper. N size of 16. Only 1 of which had used cursor more than 40 hours before. All people working in existing code bases where they were the primary author.

I did read the paper, and the HN discussion (which is how I found it). I recommend you read that, your comments were addressed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

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

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Post by edg5000 »

ChadMoran wrote: post #247
edg5000 wrote: post #175

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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.

"You are an expert software engineer Your key objective is to fix a bug in the XYAZ class. Use a team of experts as sub-agents to complete the analysis, debugging and triage work for you. Delegate to them, you are the manager and orchestrator of this work. As you delegate work, review and approve/reject their work as needed. Continue to refine until you are confident you have found a simple and robust fix"

Wow! I will try that. Really cool. Never tried the mythical sub-agent feature, not sure if it was really a thing due to the sparse docs. The "You are an expert software engineer" really helps? Probably good idea to mention "simple" because Claude sometimes settles for an overengineered solution.

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

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Post by whatarethembits »

sneilan1 wrote: post #243
moomoo11 wrote: post #174

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

yes. https://app.grantpuma.com/

I can’t read any text on homepage with iOS Safari as first few characters/words of each sentence is cut off. Text justification is different on different pages. Vertical spacing and images are uneven across the site. FAQ accordion animation is jittery and the hamburger menu doesn’t open actual menu from any other page other than homepage. Going back to homepage from FAQ page renders homepage in previous state, such as with sidebar open, momentarily before resetting to expected state. Focusing on input on sign in page zooms in on email field, but half of it is off page.

I’m assuming this is work in progress and currently it’s been vibe coded to MVP stage?

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

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Post by ath3nd »

blitzar wrote: post #222
AlexandrB wrote: post #133

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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.

> They're not selling them I have a receipt of sale that says otherwise.

Oh, you beautiful summer child. They are losing money on you . Do you think they are doing that out of the goodness of your heart? They are luring you in, making you dependent on them at a net loss while the VC money are lasting.

When you are totally hooked and they are fully out of money, that's when you'd realize the long con you've been dragged into. At this very moment, that they are tightening the usage limits they are not telling you, and you still think the peanuts you are paying them now would be enough in the future? It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification and you better know that you are in it.

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

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Post by ath3nd »

perks_12 wrote: post #217
TeMPOraL wrote: post #209

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$200 a month with Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 won't let you replace a $12.5k / month employee - but it's cheap enough that everyone, including you and even your employees, will want to see how much utility they can squeeze out of it. This is a price to get people hooked up, yes, but also to get them to explore all kinds of weird tricks and wacky workflows, especially ones that are prohibitively costly when billed per token.…

$200 a month gives your $12.5k / month employee a handy assistant who can take care of things you'd love to automate or would employ a junior dev for.

And makes your codebase completely unmaintainable, even for Claude. The more Claude runs one does, the more unmaintainable the codebase becomes, and more tokens Claude spends on each subsequent run. It's a perfect ecosystem!

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

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Post by theshrike79 »

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…

It’s also silly to fork out for anything but the monthly plan. The tech is moving so fast that in 4 months something else is going to be on top.
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