Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Claude Code weekly rate limits

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

311–320 of 724 posts

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#311

Post by arach »

Aurornis wrote: post #283
arach wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it affects only a minority of accounts, why not figure out how to special case them without affecting everyone else is the primary question I would ask myself if I worked on this the principle: let's protect against outliers without rocking the behavior of the majority, not at this stage of PMF and market discovery i'd also project out just how much the compute would cost for the outlier cohort - are we talking $5…

> why not figure out how to special case them without affecting everyone else is the primary question I would ask myself if I worked on this The announcement says that using historical data less than 5% of users would even be impacted. That seems kind of clear: The majority of users will never notice.

5% of a large number is a large number - this why it's both a significant problem for them and why I'm thinking out loud about the downsides of discouraging good actors who happen to be power users.

that 5% is probably the most creative and excited cohort. obviously it's critical to not make the experience terrible for the 95% core, but i'd hate to lose even a minority of the power users who want to build incredible things on the platform

having said that, the team is elite, sure they are thinking about all angles of this issue

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#312

Post by thejazzman »

blitzar wrote: post #255
jonas21 wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use an API key to get more usage on a pay-as-you-go basis.

You can set cash on fire if you want to.

i've gotten months of usage out of openai and claude where i seeded each with only $5

but if you use an agent and it tries to include a 500kb json file, yeah, you will light cash on fire

(this happened to me today but the rate limit bright it to my attention.)

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#313

Post by swalsh »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #203
swalsh wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens when you prompt it poorly. If you want to avoid slop, the first step is to write an extensive BRD. Read it, understand it, make sure it has everything needed. Then write a solutions architecture document. Read it, understand it, make sure it is fully specified including how things are structured, architecture, principles etc. You can use AI to write these documents. Just make sure to read them, and edit…

When do you read the code

While it's being generated, I'll spot check it, and after I test the code i'll peek in more detail at it. I review the code in much the same way I review code from a human dev. I almost never look closely at ALL lines. I'll do a quick look through just looking to see if anything jumps out, and then for the areas I intuitively know there might be some funny business I'll do a deeper dive into the code.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#314

Post by lucb1e »

raytopia wrote: post #210

I was wondering when the free lunch for these tools was going to end. All the AI stuff has been incredibly subsidized by investors and it'll be interesting to see whay the real cost is going to be when companies like Anthropic and OpenAI need to make money.

Wasn't it like 2$ in electricity for every 1$ they take in revenue at OpenAI? I think it was a Flemish podcast where they mentioned that such numbers had leaked (episode was recorded a month ago), hard to find back among a 2-hour podcast episode but as a ballpark figure

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#315

Post by submeta »

Tangential: Is there a similar service we can use in the cli, a replacement for CC? I like Cursor, I pay both for Cursor and CC, but. I live in the terminal (tmux, nvim, claude code, lazygit, yazi), and I prefer to have an agentic coding experience in the terminal. But CC has deteriorated so much in the past weeks that I constantly use repomix to compress whole projects and ask o3 for help because CC just can’t solve tasks that it previously would solve in a single shot.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#316

Post by OtherShrezzing »

serial_dev wrote: post #33
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

All of these AI services tell everyone how amazing AI is, it can run things, solve things on its own, while the developers are drinking coffee or sleeping. Some developers could actually do that with the service they paid for, fully in agreement with the terms and now it is their fault?

Anthropic put out a press release over the weekend describing the internal team’s hints and tips to make CC useful. The 2nd tip was “run it in a bunch of different features at once”.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#317

Post by paxys »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #211
paxys wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That really depends. Like, if Opus can't make it through a full work week then at least for Opus the unlimited is pretty darn fake even if 95% of people are under that. I'm reminded of online storage plans with various levels of "unlimited" messaging around them that can't even hold a single medium to large hard drive of data. Very few users hit that, most of whom don't even have a hard drive they regularly use, but…

They never advertised "unlimited", just higher limits

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#318

Post by jjmarr »

Tokumei-no-hito wrote: post #219
alwillis wrote: post #175

From Anthropic’s Reddit account: One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. Though we're developing solutions for these advanced use cases, our new rate limits will ensure a more equitable experience for all users while also preventing policy violations like account sharing and reselling access. This is why we can’t have nice things.

guy was bragging about it on twitter yesterday. $13,200 of spend for his $200 account. he said he had like 4-5 opus only agents running nonstop and calling each other recursively. clearly that's abusive and should be targeted. but in general idk how else any inference provider can handle this situation. cursor is fucked because they are a whole layer of premium above the at-cost of anthropic / openai etc. so everyone…

If VCs want to give me free money in exchange for using their product, do you expect me to say no?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#319

Post by lvl155 »

submeta wrote: post #315

Tangential: Is there a similar service we can use in the cli, a replacement for CC? I like Cursor, I pay both for Cursor and CC, but. I live in the terminal (tmux, nvim, claude code, lazygit, yazi), and I prefer to have an agentic coding experience in the terminal. But CC has deteriorated so much in the past weeks that I constantly use repomix to compress whole projects and ask o3 for help because CC just can’t solve…

There are many but none are as polished as CC.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#320

Post by tlbsofware »

blitzar wrote: post #307
ketzo wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does your Claude code usage look like if you’re getting limited in 30 minutes without running multiple instances? Massive codebase or something?

I set claude about writing docstrings on a handful of files - 4/5 files couple 100 lines each - couple of classes in each - it didnt need to scan codebase (much). Low danger task so I let it do as it pleased - 30 minutes and was maxed out. Could probably have reduced context with a /clear after every file but then I would have to participate.

You can tell it to review and edit each file within a Task/subagent and can even say to run them in parallel and it will use a separate context for each file without having to clear them manually
Post reply on HN