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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Yeah I was actually thinking about a proper rig - My gut feel is a rig wouldnt be as expensve as a mac and would actually have a higher ROI (at the expense of portability)? My other worry about the mac is how unupgradable it is. Again not sure how fruitful it is - in my (probably fantasy land) view if I can setup a rig and then keep updating components as needed - it might last me a good 5 years say for 20k over that…

Buy 4–8 used 3090s (providing 96–192 GB of VRAM), depending on the model and weight quantization you want to run. Used 3090 costs around $800. Add more RAM to offload layers if needed. This setup currently offers the best value for performance. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1iqpzpk/8x_rtx_... You can look for more rig examples on that subreddit.

Also I wonder if like the old days you could "try" these out somewhere first. Imaging plonking down 5-10k and nothing works (which is fine if you can get a refund ha).

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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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…

It makes me sad that devs start relying on proprietary online services to be able to work. We have been lucky enough to have FOSS tools to do everything and not to have to rely on any specific service or company to work and some of us are deciding to become like Monsanto-addicted farmers who forgot how to do their jobs without something they have to pay every month.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutilize my plan and go for one of the o4-mini models instead. I would much prefer a lower daily limit, but maybe the underutilization is the point of the weekly limit. *edited to change “pro”…

You can tell how it’s intentional with both OpenAI and Anthropic by how they’re intentionally made opaque. I cant see a nice little bar with how much I’ve used versus have left on the given rate limits so it’s pressuring users to hoard. Because it prevents them from budgeting it out and saying “okay I’ve used 1/3 of my quota and it’s Wednesday, I can use more faster.”

> pressures users to hoard

As a pedantic note, I would say 'ration'. Things you hoard don't magically go away after some period of time.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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> 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…

> If I use claude code & claude its over in about 30 minutes. Can you share what you're doing? I've been experimenting with Claude Code and I feel like I have to be doing a lot with it before I even start seeing the usage warning limits on the $20/month plan. When I see people claiming they're getting rate limited after 30 minutes on the $100/month plan I have a hard time understanding what they're doing so different…

$20/mo plan doesn't include opus (the larger model) like the $100+ plans do, it's likely they are hitting the opus limit which is fairly low.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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A bunch of words to just say: We're going to punish the 5% that are using our service too much.

What is the use case for that much usage? Are people mass running vibe code agents? Genuinely curious.

I have been hitting the 5 hour mark just using Claude Code at all on a very reasonably sized Flutter codebase. I’m relatively concerned but it’s very non-critical but I’m more likely to quit using the tool outright instead of paying them more. I hate how black box it is and this is making that worse.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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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.)

Fortunately Ai companies are not (currently) like AWS - you can only burn as much money as you have on account.

For brief, low context interactions, it is crazy how far your money goes.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

#369

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…

Get two subscriptions if it's delivering that much value and you hit the limits?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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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.

You can't really predict usage of output tokens, too, so this is especially concerning

Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D
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