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

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Post by Ucalegon »

mrcwinn wrote: post #381
Ucalegon wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's incredible that Boris is here on HN being open and sharing an issue they don't fully understand yet, and offering a possible workaround. CTFO. Thank you Boris.

I am sorry you feel this way, but the reality of the situation is there is zero reason to trust anything Anthropic or Boris says. They have no legal liability or obligation to tell the truth, besides brand risk, which to people like you is mitigated for a single person to show up, post, and thats it.

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

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Post by spiderfarmer »

laksjhdlka wrote: post #17
spiderfarmer wrote: post #6

That’s why I switched to Codex. It’s so much more generous and in my experience, just as good. Also, optimizing your setup for working with agents can easily make a 5x difference.

> Also, optimizing your setup for working with agents can easily make a 5x difference. Any highlights you can share here? I'm always looking to improve me setup.

I mostly use Laravel in my projects. Laravel Boost and the PAO package by Nuno Maduro are awesome. One makes it use make commands for example, the other reduces output for tests and errors.

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

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Post by stavros »

brunooliv wrote: post #420
stavros wrote: post #415

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.ghacks.net/2026/03/27/anthropic-reduces-claude-s...

Ah yes this is sad to see and a lame move for sure… It’s indeed dependent on usage hours but it’s a bad move even if I’m personally not affected since I use it outside of those hours but I agree it’s lame….

I've recently noticed my limits getting used up much more quickly whether this is on peak hours or off. Maybe it's just me, maybe not.

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

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Post by fluidcruft »

hgoel wrote: post #394
fluidcruft wrote: post #108

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I don't hit limits either on $100, it's more that claude-code seems to be constantly broken and they added some vague bullshit about not using claude-code before 2pm so I just don't expect it to work anymore and tend to use codex-cli as my driver nowadays. I also never hit limits in codex but... codex is $20/mo not $100/mo so it's making me consider relocating the $100 I spend to Anthropic as play money for z.ai and…

They had a 2x usage cap promotion that was active after 2pm. They weren't saying that you shouldn't use Claude before 2pm.

Is that true? What I saw was an official announcement linked on the claude code subreddit that said that if you claude code within the high-demand times using a subscription account, then you will now burn through your usage faster than previously. They did have a promotion as a carrot but the stick is the stick.

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

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Post by hgoel »

fluidcruft wrote: post #424
hgoel wrote: post #394

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had a 2x usage cap promotion that was active after 2pm. They weren't saying that you shouldn't use Claude before 2pm.

Is that true? What I saw was an official announcement linked on the claude code subreddit that said that if you claude code within the high-demand times using a subscription account, then you will now burn through your usage faster than previously. They did have a promotion as a carrot but the stick is the stick.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march...

"Usage remains unchanged" between 8am and 2pm.

I feel the Claude subreddits are mostly full of speculation and dramatics, not much productive discussion, like endless exaggerated complaining about downtime. Pretty much the same as a pretty significant chunk of reddit nowadays.

Edit: the rumor was probably stemming from this https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/anthropic_tweaks_usag...

It does look pretty bad, especially not announcing it on a primary channel, but also they claim it's balanced out by efficiency gains and would affect 7% of users overall and 2% of 20x users.

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

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Post by ofjcihen »

swordsith wrote: post #419
ofjcihen wrote: post #406

Been running into the same issue since a week or 2 ago on Opus. To be fair I have a pretty loose harness and pattern but it’s been enough to pull in 20k in bounties a month for a long time without going over plan with very little steering (sometimes days of continuous work) That being said I’ve figured this was coming for a long time and have been slowly moving to local models. They’re slower but with the right harne…

You're really completing bug bounties with found with AI? are companies honoring these?

Yeah definitely. To be fair before LLMs I was a security researcher for years so with that experience I was more or less able to replicate most of an acceptable process (even up to report generation).

I still review and make a decision about every report though.

In contrast I think a lot of people are just pointing agents at websites and then telling them to create and send a report which is a great way to produce trash and a ban.

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

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Post by knollimar »

omosubi wrote: post #160
palata wrote: post #150

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> We may very well look back on the last couple years as the golden era of subsidized GenAI compute. Looks like enshittification on steroids, honestly.

Getting $5000 worth of product essentially free and then being told to pay is not enshittification.

It absolutely is. Loss leading is their fault and anticompetitive.

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

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Post by vidarh »

jedisct1 wrote: post #105
vidarh wrote: post #51

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I hit the limits on the lower tiers of Codex just as fast as with Claude. At the moment I'm cycling between Claude, Codex, GLM5.1, and Kimi. The latter two are getting good enough, though, that I can make things go really far by doing planning with Opus and then switching to one of the cheap models for execution.

I have a ChatGPT Pro plan, I use it a ton, and I've never hit the limit in the past few months.

We have very different levels of use. I hit the weekly limit in two days last week.

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

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Post by fluidcruft »

hgoel wrote: post #425
fluidcruft wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that true? What I saw was an official announcement linked on the claude code subreddit that said that if you claude code within the high-demand times using a subscription account, then you will now burn through your usage faster than previously. They did have a promotion as a carrot but the stick is the stick.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march... "Usage remains unchanged" between 8am and 2pm. I feel the Claude subreddits are mostly full of speculation and dramatics, not much productive discussion, like endless exaggerated complaining about downtime. Pretty much the same as a pretty significant chunk of reddit nowadays. Edit: the rumor was probably stemming from this https://www.theregister.com/20…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1s4iefu/update_o...

is an official post by Anthropic.

> Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During peak hours (weekdays, 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT), you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing.

I'm Eastern time and peak usage works out as 8am-2pm (the bulk of my work day). It's nice that Europe gets to use it in the morning and Pacific gets to use it in the afternoon, but this is completely bullshit and infuriating. I would have no problem if it were 2x outside peak but that's NOT what they're saying.

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

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Post by yumraj »

bcherny wrote: post #210

Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. We've been investigating these reports, and a few of the top issues we've found are: 1. Prompt cache misses when using 1M token context window are expensive. Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few…

> Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few UX improvements (eg. to nudge you to /clear before continuing a long stale session), and are investigating defaulting to 400k context instead

I don’t understand this. I frequently have long breaks. I never want to clear or even compact because I don’t want to lose the conversations that I’ve had and the context. Clearing etc causes other issues like I have to restate everything at times and it misses things. I do try to update the memory which helps. I wish there was a better solution than a time bound cache

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