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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by handfuloflight »

sergiotapia wrote: post #45
jimbo808 wrote: post #22

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

Think of an insane number of requests. Now 20x it, that's what the top 1% of Claude users are at. Just fleecing the service dry. hard problem, what else could Claude do tbh

...maybe use their superintelligent AI to come up with a solution that specifically targets the abusers?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by bad_haircut72 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #31

I'm well within the 95%. I might lack an imagination here, but... What are you guys doing that you hit or exceed limits so easily, and if you do... Why does it matter? Sometimes I'd like to continue exploring ideas with Claude, but once I hit the limit I make a mental note of the time it'll come back and carry on planning and speccing without it. That's fine. If anything, some time away from the slot machine often he…

Im not a formula 1 driver but why do they have those big padel things on the back? looks dumbo IMHO I just dont get it

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by tough »

porridgebrain wrote: post #49
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…

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Or just use any other CLI and API provider and let Anthropic hang with their -alignment- and selling out to warmongers

actually you can keep using claude code (cli) tool with any provider, just replace the env endpoints.

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by paxys »

tough wrote: post #46
paxys wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If 95% of users are under the limit then it isn't a "fake" plan.

fake for 5% of users. will they refund me my sub? when I subbed It was unlimited, they've rugged the terms twice already since then in less than a month

> Starting August 28

Read the announcement. You are getting a full month's notice. If you don't like the limits, don't renew your subscription. Of course that doesn't help if your primary goal is to be an online outrage culture warrior.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

porridgebrain wrote: post #49
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…

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What if they're using it to help them learn to program? There are plenty of valid uses people might have. And ultimately, it's their call, right? Capitalism and all that. I suppose the argument then is "just use the API", and sure, that's a solution. Yet it's odd to have an expensive subscription that's heavily rate limited like this.

It's a non-issue for me. When I hit the limit, which is rare, I go back to analog life where I use my head's brain to do the heavy lifting and that has all kinds of perks that Claude doesn't have. I get why people are frustrated, though.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by serial_dev »

steveklabnik wrote: post #19
closewith wrote: post #6

It was always too good to last. I assume this is the end of the viability of the fixed price options.

> affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns.

Affecting 5% of users to me sounds like it affects pretty much everyone who got some value out of the tool and is not a casual coder.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by andix »

idunnoboutthat wrote: post #42
andix wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess you need to get used to it. LLM token usage directly translates to energy consumption. There are also no flat fee electricity plans, it doesn't make any sense.

that's true of everything on the internet.

Yes, but for most things it's not significant.

For example Stack Overflow used to handle all their traffic from 9 on-prem servers (not sure if this is still the case). Millions of daily users. Power consumption and hardware cost is completely insignificant in this case.

LLM inference pricing is mostly driven by power consumption and hardware cost (which also takes a lot of power/heat to manufacture).

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by bad_haircut72 »

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

They set the pricing how is this even wrong - I will run my claude subscription non stop until they cut me off, I paid for it they should honor what they sold. And yes Im a max subscriber who still frequently hits limits

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by cyanydeez »

handfuloflight wrote: post #51
sergiotapia wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think of an insane number of requests. Now 20x it, that's what the top 1% of Claude users are at. Just fleecing the service dry. hard problem, what else could Claude do tbh

...maybe use their superintelligent AI to come up with a solution that specifically targets the abusers?

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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by aliljet »

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but it seems like Anthropic has quietly 4x'd the real cost of the Pro plan. There are 168 hours in a week, and if I'm able to (safely) bet on 40 hours of use, realistically, I just lost 75% of the value of the plan.

What are the reasonable local alternatives? 128 GB of ram, reasonably-newish-proc, 12 GB of vram? I'm okay waitign for my machine to burn away on LLM experiments I'm running, but I don't want to simply stop my work and wake up at 3 AM to start working again..

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