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Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by scrollop »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #13
cmaster11 wrote: post #2

For whoever else is having the same problems, worth voting these kind of issues. There needs to be more transparency over what goes on with our subscriptions.

We vote here on HN and it's much more effective. Anyone from Anthropic reading conversations on HN like this one can be scared. We'll jump ship if they don't address such glaring issues.

There are MANY accounts of claude degradation (intelligence, limits) over the past week on reddit and here with many posts describing people moving. Nothing is changing. You'd think they'd at least give a statement.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by bob1029 »

I've got a dual path system to keep costs low and avoid TOS violations.

For general queries and investigation I will use whatever public/free model is available without being logged in. Not having a bunch of prior state stacked up all the time is a feature for me. This is essentially my google replacement.

For very specific technical work against code files, I use prepaid OAI tokens in VS copilot as a "custom" model (it's just gpt5.4).

I burn through maybe $30 worth of tokens per month with this approach. A big advantage of prepaying for the API tokens is that I can look at everything copilot is doing in my usage logs. If I use the precanned coding agent products, the prompts are all hidden in another layer of black box.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by sunaookami »

cedws wrote: post #75
chandureddyvari wrote: post #40

Claude has gotten noticeably worse for me too. It goes into long exploration loops for 5+ minutes even when I point it to the exact files to inspect. Then 30 minutes later I hit session limits. Three sessions like that in a day, and suddenly 25% of the weekly limit is gone. I ended up buying the $100 Codex plan. So far it has been much more generous with usage and more accurate than Claude for the kind of work I do.…

I had a weird experience at work last week where Claude was just thinking forever about tasks and not actually doing anything. It was unusable. The next day it was fine again.

Set MAX_THINKING_TOKENS to 0, Claude's thinking hardly does anything and just wastes tokens. It actually often performs worse than without thinking.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by SkyPuncher »

I skimmed the issue. No wonder Anthropic closes these tickets out without much action. That’s just a wall of AI garbage.

Here’s what I’ve done to mostly fix my usage issues:

* Turn on max thinking on every session. It save tokens overall because I’m not correcting it of having it waste energy on dead paths.

* keep active sessions active. It seems like caches are expiring after ~5 minutes (especially during peak usage). When the caches expire it sees like all tokens need to be rebuilt this gets especially bad as token usage goes up.

* compact after 200k tokens as soon as I reasonably can. I have no data but my usage absolutely sky rockets as I get into longer sessions. This is the most frustrating thing because Anthropic forced the 1M model on everyone.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by freedomben »

cedws wrote: post #75
chandureddyvari wrote: post #40

Claude has gotten noticeably worse for me too. It goes into long exploration loops for 5+ minutes even when I point it to the exact files to inspect. Then 30 minutes later I hit session limits. Three sessions like that in a day, and suddenly 25% of the weekly limit is gone. I ended up buying the $100 Codex plan. So far it has been much more generous with usage and more accurate than Claude for the kind of work I do.…

I had a weird experience at work last week where Claude was just thinking forever about tasks and not actually doing anything. It was unusable. The next day it was fine again.

This happened to me as well! It was especially infuriating because I had just barely upgraded to the $200 per month plan because I exhausted my weekly quota. Then the entire next day was a complete bust because of this issue. I want my money back!

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by zarzavat »

imglorp wrote: post #69
zozbot234 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It goes into long exploration loops for 5+ minutes even when I point it to the exact files to inspect. Give it a custom sandbox and context for the work, so it has no opportunity to roam around when not required. AI agentic coding is hugely wasteful of context and tokens in general (compared to generic chat, which is how most people use AI), there's a whole lot of scope for improvement there.

The sandbox is fine, but if the parent has given explicit instruction of files to inspect, why is it not centering there? Is the recent breakage that the base prompt makes it always try to explore for more context even if you try to focus it?

They changed plan mode so that it's instructed to follow a multi-step plan, the first step being to explore the code base. When you tell it to focus it's getting contradictory instructions from plan mode vs your prompt and it's essentially a coin flip which one it picks.

It does seem like a cynical attempt to make more money.

Re: Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

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Post by caminante »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #102
wesammikhail wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

source?

After googling https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1psesym/openai...

>OpenAI's compute margin, referring to the share of revenue excluding the costs of running its AI models for paying users

Huh?

The reddit summary comment makes no sense. How are they getting revenues without ads or paying customers?

"After" makes more sense.

FTA:

>The company has yet to show a profit and is searching for ways to make money to cover its high computing costs and infrastructure plans.

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