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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by dexwiz »

sandcat_ wrote: post #13
bdcravens wrote: post #5

The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels. "From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.

I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by kelnos »

johnwheeler wrote: post #8
wilg wrote: post #3

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me. I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of. But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

Because "$X is bad" is boring, especially when it comes to LLMs. I use Opus 5 and it's fine. It's more chatty and sometimes a little more difficult to steer than 4.x was, but I've found the code quality of 5 to be much higher.

Everyone has different experiences with these things (for example, I've never experienced what you describe), and "$X is bad" is not conducive to thoughtful discussion.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by PacificSpecific »

I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by hombre_fatal »

kbrannigan wrote: post #22
hombre_fatal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

gpt-5.6-sol uses fewer tokens and OpenAI has been more generous with usage, but quality-wise I wouldn't say they are inferior to each other. I have a Claude Code and OpenAI subscription so that I can use Opus/Fable/gpt-5.6 as I please, and the models are often catching things the other models missed. So much that I would significantly weaken my workflow if I dropped one subscription. My best workflow at the moment is…

Any model currently in 2026 is better than the ones of 2024. What is the quality difference really. I mean i think if a developer has a good handle of the code the difference is marginal . Unless we 100% offload the thinking to the model and act like a prompt manager. Maybe

For personal projects, I defer almost everything day-to-day to the models, so it gives me a good feel for what the models are good at.

Even then, it's kind of a wash these days between the sota models, and we're talking about maybe a 10% performance difference or something. But every once in a while there's the experience of one model spinning its wheels on a bug/repro/issue while another model comes in and one-shots the solution.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

elektor wrote: post #17
_diyar wrote: post #11

I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.

Does summer holidays only apply to Europeans? I think most Americans are still largely in office for August

People take much more time off during the summer in the USA than during other times of year. It’s somewhat regional, but it’s been true in all the place I have lived. Probably July is the most common month though because in some regions schools start sometime in August. It’s not uncommon for people to take 1-2w off during that period. More than 2w often requires extra approvals, so is less common.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

Quite a number of the smartest people I know got scalped to work at OpenAI. I don’t know anyone who went to Anthropic. Something I think which is under emphasized is that OpenAI has the human capital in addition to the financial capital advantage over Anthropic.

Over the long term I think OpenAI will produce the better experience when it comes to model quality, harness quality, and availability. I have been using codex the past few months and never looked back.

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