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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by serf »

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks.

NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project.

This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me.

'35 hours' is absolutely nothing when you spawn lots of agents, and the damn thing is built to support that behavior.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#12

Post by volkk »

rstupek wrote: post #8

"... and advanced usage patterns like running Claude 24/7 in the background" this is why we can't have nice things

i mean, this is exactly how price discovery works. if you give loose usage requirements, you'll have actors who take full advantage of it. not on the people using it but ultimately on the company that pretends they can sustain something like this, and then claw back the niceties

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by nojito »

serf wrote: post #11

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks. NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project. This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me. '35 ho…

Use the API.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by jjcm »

They need metered billing for their plans.

All AI companies are hitting the same thing and dealing with the same play - they don't want users to think about cost when they're prompting, so they offer high cost flat fee plans.

The reality is though there will always be a cohort of absolute power users who will push the limits of those flat fee plans to the logical extremes. Startups like Terragon are specifically engineered to help you optimize your plan usage. This causes a cat and mouse game where they have to keep lowering limits as people work around them, which often results in people thinking about price more, not less.

Cursor has adjusted their limits several times, now Anthropic is, others will soon follow as they decide to stop subsidizing the 10% of extreme power users.

Just offer metered plans that let me use the web interface.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Fade_Dance »

vFunct wrote: post #9

Seems like their business plan is unsustainable. What's a sustainable cost model? Say an 8xB200 server costs $500,000, with 3 years depreciation, so $166k/year costs for a server. Say 10 people share that server full time per year, so that's going to need $16k/year/person to break even, so ~$1,388/month subscription to break even at 10x users per server. If they get it down to 100 users per server (doubt it), then th…

It seems to me that the business model simply won't be making money until a time when jobs are running on new, more efficient hardware a generation or two from now. Like you said, the numbers just don't work currently. I'm under the impression they want to potentially get to break-even for now.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#20

Post by gingersnap »

koolba wrote: post #2

This is like when the all-you-can-eat buffet tells you you're only allowed to go the buffet line once.

No, it's not. It's the all you can eat buffet saying that 95% can eat all they want, but the 5% that keep sneaking food in their backpack to eat when they get can't do that anymore.
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