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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by blitzar »

stuaxo wrote: post #325
blitzar wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I hope you thoroughly go through these as a human, purely AI written stuff can be horrible to read.

Docstring slop is better than code slop - anyway that is what git commits are for - and I have 4.5 hours to do that till next reset.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by KronisLV »

bugglebeetle wrote: post #129
KronisLV wrote: post #81

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I personally take an issue with them expecting that your usage would be more or less consistent throughout the month. Instead, I might have low usage throughout most of the month and then an 11 hour binge a few days, which in most cases would involve running into rate limits (either that, or just token limitations for inputs). That's why using the API directly and paying for tokens anything past that basic usage feel…

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a better coding model, but Gemini CLI is way behind Claude Code, perhaps because the model itself isn’t well-tuned for agentic work. If you’re just doing targeted refactoring and exploration, you can copy and paste back and forth from the web app for $20 a month.

I mostly use RooCode nowadays, which works well enough with both Claude and Gemini and other models, even locally hosted ones. Decoupling the LLM vendor from the tools might miss out on some finer features, but also gives me a little bit more freedom, much like how you can also do with the Copilot plugins and Continue.dev and a few others.

Note: all of them sometimes screw up applying diffs, but in general are good enough.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

arach wrote: post #311
Aurornis wrote: post #283

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> 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…

5% seems like a huge number of previously ecstatic customers who may suddenly be angry. Especially when it is trivial to identify the top 0.1% of users who are doing something insane.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by stronglikedan »

flkiwi wrote: post #84
qiller wrote: post #67

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I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

It's not exactly the same thing, but imagine my complete surprise when, in the middle of a discussion with Copilot and without warning, it announced that the conversation had reached its length limit and I had to start a new one with absolutely no context from the current one. Copilot has many, many usability quirks, but that was the first that actually made me mad.

The craziest thing to me is that it actually completely stopped you in your tracks instead of upselling you on the spot to continue.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by sva_ »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #88

I'm probably not going to hit the weekly limit, but it makes me nervous that the limit is weekly as opposed to every 36 hours or something. If I do hit the limit, that's it for the entire week —a long time to be without a tool I've grown accustomed to! I feel like someone is going to reply that I'm too reliant on Claude or something. Maybe that's true, but I'd feel the same about the prospect of loosing ripgrep for a…

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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by bogtog »

blitzar wrote: post #282
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #88

I'm probably not going to hit the weekly limit, but it makes me nervous that the limit is weekly as opposed to every 36 hours or something. If I do hit the limit, that's it for the entire week —a long time to be without a tool I've grown accustomed to! I feel like someone is going to reply that I'm too reliant on Claude or something. Maybe that's true, but I'd feel the same about the prospect of loosing ripgrep for a…

> Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit. I regularly hit the the Pro limits 3 times a day using sonnet. If I use claude code & claude its over in about 30 minutes. No multi 24/7 agent whatever, no multiple windows open (except using Claude to write a letter between claude code thoughts). I highly doubt I am a top 5%er - but wont be shocked if my week ends on a wednessday. I was jus…

> I highly doubt I am a top 5%er - but wont be shocked if my week ends on a wednessday. I was just starting to use Claude chat more as it is in my subscription but if I can not rely on it to be available for multiple days its functionally useless - I wont even bother.

You very well might be a top 5%er among people only on the Pro rather than Max plan

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by OtherShrezzing »

neom wrote: post #266

I'm working on a coding agent for typescript teams and I'm curious how people would like to consume these things generallyin terms of price a predictability. I've thought through a bunch of stuff, not sure what is best... Right now I have a base fee and then a concept of credits, the base fee ($500) includes 10k credits, and the credits are tied to PRs, it works out to 100 "credits" per simple PR and 200 "credits" fo…

That suggested pricing structure is too complicated - especially when it boils down to $5 for a simple PR, and $10 for a big one.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by QuadmasterXLII »

Their business model with the pro plan is to sell a dollar for 80 cents for a while to gain market share. Once they have spent the money allocated to this plan and bring it to a close, don’t expect them to resume it in response to righteous indignation: the money will be gone. See also Uber, MoviePass etc
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