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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

#83

Post by _diyar »

MobiusHorizons wrote: post #38
elektor wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly. Say on average people take 2 weeks / 16 week off in that period, thats 12% traffic right there.

And smarter people than me can probably find some extra-linear relationship between usage and required limits for uptime etc.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

#84

Post by indigodaddy »

If Anthropic doesn't figure out why OpenAI is eating their lunch, they're in some trouble. I'm guessing they already know why, but aren't able to accept that they won't somehow come out #1. Or in fact they really believe they will still come out #1. Delusion?

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

#86

Post by senko »

dboreham wrote: post #81
jdoe1337halo wrote: post #7

Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of compute

Meanwhile my $100/mo subscription allows me to spank Claude all day doing the work of 4 coders and never hit any limits.

This is my experience as well -- unless I'm using Fable. That one burns through tokens like a lightsaber through butter.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by dboreham »

tziki wrote: post #15
nostrebored wrote: post #6

prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.

Are there any figure to back up people moving to Codex?

No. Here's a data point: I tried it for a few days. While it worked fine I didn't see any benefit to switching since it costs the same ($100) and I've spent a year getting up to speed on Claude usage and quirks.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

#88

Post by nekusar »

And in the end, selling tokens ENCOURAGES the companies to sell more tokens. And how do they sell more tokens?

"Thinking" aka 'trust us bro!' without proof of thinking.

Making the model waste more tokens.

Advertisement: aka you pay to be advertised at.

Silently downgrading you and still faking models with the more costly tokens.

Intentional strategies to eat more tokens with no real gains.

Giving out almost-but-not-quite solutions that require another pull of the slo(t/p) machine.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

#89

Post by ryanSrich »

For anyone on the fence, I was a hardcore CC user since it was released. I made the full switch to 5.6 sol and Codex about a month ago.

It's the better experience. The limits are way higher (I almost never burn through my $200/m plan), and the output is better than Opus 4.8 (Opus 5 is completely unusable for me).

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