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

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I'm afraid the music may be slowly fading at this party, and the lights will soon be turned on. We may very well look back on the last couple years as the golden era of subsidized GenAI compute. For those not in the Google Gemini/Antigravity sphere, over the last month or so that community has been experiencing nothing short of contempt from Google when attempting to address an apparent bait and switch on quota expec…

Maybe I missed the party, but it feels like it's just starting. I have only been running local models and we are finally at the point with gemma4 and Qwen3.5 where they can start doing coding work. And the quota can't change.

The only viable future-proof solution to this hellscape is what you mention, local models and/or corporate models for work.

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

#542

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That’s a good point. Having an SLA page is an indicator that a business offers SLAs, not having an SLA page is also an indicator that they offer SLAs, just secretly. If you think about it all of the people constantly complaining about uptime and saying stuff like “I would pay money for an SLA from Anthropic if I could” probably means that they are killing it with all those secret SLAs. I mean obviously they have to o…

Again, many companies will do things they don’t ordinarily offer for the right price. I’ve seen it happen myself (on both the buyer and seller side) on many occasions. It goes to the extent of the company itself! Very few businesses publicize that they’re for sale or put their company’s purchase price on their website. But acquisitions happen all the time. Anyway, I don’t appreciate your sarcasm coupled with what see…

I don’t get it. If you wanted to convince everybody about a vast universe of secret business and your expertise in it, why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA from Anthropic that Anthropic offers SLAs? And then admit that you don’t actually know and then double down?

Like if I wanted to convince people that In’N’Out has a secret menu (they do) I wouldn’t start by saying “They have the ingredients to make onion rings, therefore they sell onion rings” (they do not). They offer burgers with lettuce instead of a bun (“protein style”) though. That’s a fact that you can verify by going there or calling them and asking about it. I didn’t rely on my assumptions based on other fast food restaurants, I relied on my knowledge of the topic!

Edit: It seems like bad faith to admit that you’re using “probably” interchangeably with “I don’t know” and then editing in “for a billion dollars” several posts into a conversation.

I guess enjoy posting about entirely unrelated conversations in other threads though. (otterley’s post about my having previously had a short amicable exchange with dang in a different thread was deleted, but I’ll leave this part up. I think digging through people’s post histories to find unrelated grievances is icky, for lack of a better word, and wildly unhelpful for any type of discussion)

Even with the “for a billion dollars” addition, admitting “I don’t know” and “probably” are interchangeable doesn’t really change anything from a logical standpoint. Nobody argued against you not knowing, so I don’t understand the purpose of the repetition.

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

#543

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OpenAI (Codex) keeps on resetting the usage limits each time they fuck up... I have yet to see Anthropic doing the same. Sorry but this whole thing seems to be quite on purpose.

Can you clearly state what they messed up?

Suddenly burning up the quota ~4x faster than usual is not a mess up in your opinion?

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

#544

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Can you clearly state what they messed up?

Suddenly burning up the quota ~4x faster than usual is not a mess up in your opinion?

It is not inherently their fault though because usage is controlled both by the user and the harness behavior. So I was asking specifically what about the harness was messed up, can you provide that info?

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

#545

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Could we get an option to use Opus with a smaller context window? I noticed that results get much worse way earlier than when you reach 1M tokens, and I would love to have a setting so that I could force a compaction at eg 300k tokens.

You probably just missed it in his post, but: "To experiment with this now, try: CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW=400000 claude." Maybe try changing the 4 to a 3 and see if that works for you?

Thank you, will definitely try that!

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

#546

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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.

You should work at these companies and understand they have good intentioned employees otherwise they’d rarely pass the cultural interviews plus background checks plus backchanneling. Have a bit more faith in the employees

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

#547

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Again, many companies will do things they don’t ordinarily offer for the right price. I’ve seen it happen myself (on both the buyer and seller side) on many occasions. It goes to the extent of the company itself! Very few businesses publicize that they’re for sale or put their company’s purchase price on their website. But acquisitions happen all the time. Anyway, I don’t appreciate your sarcasm coupled with what see…

I don’t get it. If you wanted to convince everybody about a vast universe of secret business and your expertise in it, why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA from Anthropic that Anthropic offers SLAs? And then admit that you don’t actually know and then double down? Like if I wanted to convince people that In’N’Out has a secret menu (they do) I wouldn’t start by saying “They have the…

> why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA

That hasn’t been established. There’s no evidence that they went to Anthropic and tried to negotiate one.

> that Anthropic offers SLAs

I didn’t. I said “they probably will for the right price.” There are two modifiers in that statement. And the price is unspecified. Their first offer could be a billion dollars. Too expensive? Negotiate down.

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

#548
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Ads do not pay enough to cover AI usage. People see the big numbers Google and Facebook make in ads and forget to divide the number by the number of people they serve ads to, let alone the number of ads they served to get to that per-user number. You can't pay for 3 cents of inference with .07 cents of revenue. You also can't put ads in code completion AIs because the instant you do the utility to me of them at work…

Agreed, and the answer is pretty obvious as to how they start making profit. The answer is in this thread, CRANKING the cost up immensely once they establish agreements between the duopoly leaders in the field to do so in tandem and buy up any competition that seeks to challenge them. I’m thinking 20x what the cost is now is where they’ll land. It’ll be a massive line item for software dev shops.

the problem now is how much can they hike the costs without people just going back to coding by hand.

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

#549
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Where is your evidence of this "massive cost"? Inference is massively profitable for both anthropic and openai. Training is not.

This article convinced me otherwise https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/

good article!

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

#550

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I don’t get it. If you wanted to convince everybody about a vast universe of secret business and your expertise in it, why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA from Anthropic that Anthropic offers SLAs? And then admit that you don’t actually know and then double down? Like if I wanted to convince people that In’N’Out has a secret menu (they do) I wouldn’t start by saying “They have the…

> why would you start with telling people that weren’t able to get an SLA That hasn’t been established. There’s no evidence that they went to Anthropic and tried to negotiate one. > that Anthropic offers SLAs I didn’t. I said “they probably will for the right price .” There are two modifiers in that statement. And the price is unspecified. Their first offer could be a billion dollars. Too expensive? Negotiate down.

I would invite you to notice your interlocutor's assumptions, especially as revealed in his prior comment. Look at how he misunderstands the situation:

> If you wanted to convince everybody about a vast universe of secret business and your expertise in it...

> Like if I wanted to convince people that In’N’Out has a secret menu...

You are discussing business. He is understanding you to be attempting to "mog" him, because he cannot adopt a perspective wherein the conversation represents anything other than a vacuous social challenge or "brodown."

In short, you're wasting your time.

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